| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Excavate.[Websters]
2. To have scoured, rummaged, ransacked or scanned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be depressed, dispirited or dejected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have fumbled, browsed, sniffed or snooped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be unpicked or uncoupled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be distinguished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have scooped or gouged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have picked or fetched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be lacerated or tattered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be rented or gashed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb excavate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (excavate) | 1. Recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold".[Wordnet]. 2. Find by digging in the ground.[Wordnet]. 3. Form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity".[Wordnet]. 4. Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside".[Wordnet]. 5. Lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy".[Wordnet]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.[Websters]. 8. To dig out and remove, as earth.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: excavating, excavated, excavates, excavator, excavators, excavatingly and excavatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being depressed, dispirited or dejected.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being distinguished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being uncoupled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being lacerated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being cleft or cloven. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being unwrapped or unbolted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being battered or crumpled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being concave or hollow.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EXCAVATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXCAVATED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Hollowed; make hollow.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of excavate. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: EXCAVATED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Excavated earth | Mining | Residue consisting of earth or other material, produced by excavation; cf. construction waste, demolition waste. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Excavated trail | Forestry | A constructed trail that has a width greater than 1.5 m and a mineral soil cutbank height greater than 30 cm. (references) | |
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| Excavate | 10 | Excavate | 10 | |
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