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.
To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
To dig out and remove, as earth.
To excavate an area is to uncover it by digging or removing earth. go back
dig out; a hole or cavity; to expose to view, e.g., the remains of an ancient culture.
To dig out a volume of earth for a basement, footings or foundation.
to expose to view by digging away a covering such as the soil Mississippi: A Site for All Seasons
lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"
find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
To dig. Woodchucks excavate a den in the ground; woodpeckers excavate a cavity in a tree.
to carefully dig up buried objects to find information about the past.
in archaeology, to investigate a site through a careful, scientific digging process
To dig the basement and/or all areas that will need footings/foundations below ground.
Open or lay bare something by digging in the ground.
Process of digging basement or areas needing foundations below ground.
To dig. To make a hole or cavity.