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Verb excavate has 4 senses
  1. excavate, unearth - lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"
    --1 is one way to uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal
    Derived forms: noun excavation2, noun excavation3, noun excavation1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s Adjective
  2. excavate, dig up, turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
    --2 is one way to obtain
    Derived forms: noun excavation2, noun excavation3, noun excavation1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. excavate - form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
    --3 is one way to     hollow, hollow out, core out
    Derived forms: noun excavation3, noun excavator1, noun excavator2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. excavate, dig, hollow - remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite"
    --4 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
    Derived forms: noun excavation3, noun excavation4
    Sample sentence:
    They excavate the trees
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