EXCAVATE Synonyms

• the site of an archeological exploration

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)

• the act of digging

• the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth

• create by digging

• work hard

• remove, harvest, or recover by digging

• thrust down or into

• remove the inner part or the core of

• poke or thrust abruptly

• get the meaning of something

• discover by investigation

• recover through digging

• a person who evokes boredom

• a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

• diameter of a tube or gun barrel

• a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

• cause to be bored

• make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool

• a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter

• move through by or as by digging

• a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

• cover before cooking

• search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

• remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

• to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

• act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression

• move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

• a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence

• a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

• animal hunted or caught for food

• extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry

• the quantity a scoop will hold

• a hollow concave shape made by removing something

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

• the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

• a large ladle

• take out or up with or as if with a scoop

• get the better of

• a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

• the quantity a shovel can hold

• a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

• a machine for excavating

• dig with or as if with a shovel

• a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)

• a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter

• move through by or as by digging

• force a way through

• not solid; having a space or gap or cavity

• a cavity or space in something

• a small valley between mountains

• a depression hollowed out of solid matter

• as if echoing in a hollow space

• devoid of significance or force

• lacking in substance or character

• remove the inner part or the core of

• remove the interior of

• find by digging in the ground

• remove, harvest, or recover by digging

• appear or become visible; make a showing

• bend or lay so that one part covers the other

• discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

• be shown or be found to be

• find by digging in the ground