Antonyms for excavate
ˈɛks kəˌveɪtex·ca·vate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.6 / 11 votes

1. excavate

   Antonyms:
   bury, fill level, conceal, inter, inhume

   Synonyms:
   dig, hollow, trench, discover, deserter

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1. • Hollow
   • Remove

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1. excavate, unearthverb

   recover through digging

   "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"

   Synonyms:
   hollow, dig up, unearth, dig, turn up

2. excavate, dig up, turn upverb

   find by digging in the ground

   "I dug up an old box in the garden"

   Synonyms:
   dig, turn up, hollow, turn out, fold up, dig up, locate, fold, surface, come out, come on, show up, dig out, unearth, prove

3. excavateverb

   form by hollowing

   "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"

   Synonyms:
   hollow, dig up, unearth, dig, turn up

4. excavate, dig, hollowverb

   remove the inner part or the core of

   "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

   Synonyms:
   stab, dig, cut into, prod, grind, travail, core out, turn over, jab, delve, hollow, labour, savvy, comprehend, compass, poke, apprehend, get the picture, grok, unearth, turn up, labor, dig out, grasp, hollow out, drudge, moil, toil, dig up

How to use excavate in a sentence?

1. Jeremy DeSilva:

   Mary Leakey made exquisitely detailed maps of the footprint localities. From Mary Leakey map, we were able to approximate where the tracks should be. We began to dig, hoping for the best, but fearing instead that forty years of seasonal rains had washed them away, the soil was hard as cement and it took a hammer and chisel to reach the footprint layer, which we then needed to excavate delicately with a hard-bristled brush and tongue depressor. Fortunately, the footprints were beautifully preserved.

2. Charles Kalemba:

   It’s worse today. A number of places are flooding and a number of roads and bridges are cut. Visibility is almost zero. Electricity is off and also network is a problem. It’s becoming more and more dire, it’s tough. We need to use machinery (for rescue operations) but machines cannot go to places where they were supposed to excavate because of the rains.

3. Mark Milburn:

   When we find cannons, we’re quite excited because, if we’re allowed to excavate around them, there will be ‘concretions’ of items near the cannon from when the ship sank.

4. Nicholas Reeves:

   The key is to excavate slowly and carefully and record well. The fact is this isn't a race. All archaeology is disruption. We can't go back and re-do it, so we have to do it well in the first place, i’m feeling more certain today than I expected to be.

5. Karim Sadr:

   LiDAR cannot show everything and many of the parts of the city need to investigated on the ground from up close, eventually we will want to excavate some parts of the site and since the deposits are not generally deep, not a lot of earth has to be moved.

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