excavate 音标拼音: ['ɛkskəv
, et]
vt .
vi . 挖,挖开,凿通
挖,挖开,凿通
excavate v 1 :
recover through digging ; "
Schliemann excavated Troy ";
"
excavate gold " [
synonym : {
excavate }, {
unearth }]
2 :
find by digging in the ground ; "
I dug up an old box in the garden " [
synonym : {
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 " [
synonym : {
excavate }, {
dig },
{
hollow }]
Excavate \
Ex "
ca *
vate \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Excavated };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Excavating }.] [
L .
excavatus ,
p .
p .
of excavare to excavate ;
ex out cavare to make hollow ,
cavus hollow .
See {
Cave }.]
1 .
To hollow out ;
to form cavity or hole in ;
to make hollow by cutting ,
scooping ,
or digging ;
as ,
to excavate a ball ;
to excavate the earth .
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2 .
To form by hollowing ;
to shape ,
as a cavity ,
or anything that is hollow ;
as ,
to excavate a canoe ,
a cellar ,
a channel .
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3 . (
Engin .)
To dig out and remove ,
as earth .
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The material excavated was usually sand . --
E .
L .
Corthell .
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{
Excavating pump },
a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water ,
in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump . --
Knight .
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84 Moby Thesaurus words for "
excavate ":
avulse ,
bore ,
bring to light ,
bring up ,
burrow ,
clear ,
countersink ,
cut out ,
deepen ,
delve ,
depress ,
deracinate ,
dig ,
dig out ,
dig up ,
dike ,
disclose ,
disentangle ,
disinter ,
dive ,
draw ,
draw out ,
dredge ,
dredge up ,
drill ,
drive ,
eradicate ,
evolve ,
evulse ,
excise ,
exhume ,
expose ,
exsect ,
extract ,
extricate ,
ferret out ,
fish up ,
furrow ,
get out ,
gouge ,
gouge out ,
groove ,
grub ,
grub up ,
hollow out ,
lay bare ,
lower ,
mine ,
pick out ,
pluck out ,
pluck up ,
pull ,
pull out ,
pull up ,
quarry ,
rake out ,
remove ,
reveal ,
rip out ,
root out ,
root up ,
sap ,
scoop ,
scoop out ,
scrabble ,
scrape ,
scratch ,
shovel ,
sink ,
spade ,
take out ,
tear out ,
trench ,
trough ,
tunnel ,
turn up ,
uncover ,
unearth ,
unravel ,
uproot ,
weed out ,
withdraw ,
worm out ,
wrest out
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