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Meaning of excavate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  excavate
      v 1: recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy";
           "excavate gold" [syn: {excavate}, {unearth}]
      2: find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the
         garden" [syn: {excavate}, {dig up}, {turn up}]
      3: form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for
         Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
      4: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company
         wants to excavate the hillside" [syn: {excavate}, {dig},
         {hollow}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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