Found 3 items, similar to excavate.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: excavate gerai, menggali
English → English (WordNet) Definition: excavate excavate v 1: lay bare through digging; “Schliemann excavated Troy” [syn: unearth] 2: find by digging in the ground; “I dug up an old box in the garden” [syn: dig up, turn up] 3: form by hollowing; “Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team”; “excavate a cavity” 4: remove the inner part or the core of; “the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite” [syn: dig, hollow]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Excavate Excavate \Ex"ca*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excavated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excavating.] [L. excavatus, p. p. of excavare to excavate; ex out + cavare to make hollow, cavus hollow. See Cave.] 1. To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. [1913 Webster] 2. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel. [1913 Webster] 3. (Engin.) To dig out and remove, as earth. [1913 Webster] The material excavated was usually sand. --E. L. Corthell. [1913 Webster] Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. --Knight. [1913 Webster]