Word: excavate Word origin: late 16th century: from Latin excavat- ‘hollowed out’, from the verb excavare, from ex- ‘out’ + cavare ‘make or become hollow’ (from cavus ‘hollow’). Phonetic: ˈɛkskəveɪt Listen:
make (a hole or channel) by digging. Example: the cheapest way of doing this was to excavate a long trench
remove earth carefully from (an area) in order to find buried remains. Example: the site was excavated in 1975
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