excavate

美['ekskəveɪt] 英['ekskəveɪt]

v. 挖掘；挖开；发掘（古物）

过去式：excavated 过去分词：excavated 现在分词：excavating 第三人称单数：excavates

近义词：dig，unearth，mine，digup，quarry，digout，exhume，hollowout，scoopout，burrow，scoop，shovel，ditch，grub，gouge，deepen，up，pullup，pull，dredge，hollow，turnup，inter，bury，

详细释义

v.(动词)

挖掘，挖出
（开）凿，凿通
发掘
掘开，掘出
变成空洞
挖（空），挖（洞）

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Verb

recover through digging;
"Schliemann excavated Troy" "excavate gold"
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"
remove the inner part or the core of;
"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

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用作动词(v.)

It took a long time to excavate the ancient city of Troy.挖掘古老的特洛伊城，花了很长时间。
I let him excavate around the mine.我准许他在金矿周围挖掘。
They plan to excavate a large hole.他们计划挖个大洞。
The archaeologists excavated a buried city.考古学家发掘出一个埋在地下的城市。

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