Crossword-Solution: EXCAVATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Excavate | v. t. | 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. |
| Excavate | v. t. | To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel. |
| Excavate | v. t. | To dig out and remove, as earth. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “EXCAVATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Uncover (historical remains) | 1 answer |
| Dig for, as artifacts | 1 answer |
| Engage in archaeology | 1 answer |
| Follow in Schliemann's footsteps | 1 answer |
| Help an archeologist | 1 answer |
| Remove from the ground | 1 answer |
| form by hollowing | 1 answer |
| remove the inner part or the core of | 1 answer |
| Work underground | 3 answers |
| gouge out | 4 answers |
| Really dig | 7 answers |
| Dredge | 7 answers |
| exhume | 8 answers |
| Dig out | 10 answers |
| archaeology | 15 answers |
| Hollow out | 15 answers |
| dig up | 17 answers |
| Unearth | 21 answers |
| Quarry | 22 answers |
| Scoop | 29 answers |
| DRAG out | 36 answers |
| Mine ___ | 41 answers |
| Burrow | 43 answers |
| Pit | 48 answers |
| Grub | 50 answers |
| Delve | 52 answers |
| Bore | 57 answers |
| Extract | 58 answers |
| Dig | 70 answers |
| Examine | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMEAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXCAVATE (5)
The quarries, ‘or caves,’ as they call them there, are so many openings, high up in the hills, on either side of these passes, where they blast and excavate for marble: which may turn out good or bad: may make a man’s fortune very quickly, or ruin him by the great expense of working what is worth nothing.
The greater part had not time to execute their design; but one of them, Simon, the Son of Gioras, having provided himself with food, and tools to excavate the earth descended into this retreat with some companions: he remained there till Titus had set out for Rome: under the pressure of famine he issued forth on a sudden in the very place where the Temple had stood, and appeared in the midst of the Roman guard.
The object of the enterprise is for a double purpose, if possible to solve the mystery of the mountain, and if successful in finding the "hypothetic buried star" to excavate and appropriate it for its valuable iron.
Tegetmeier, I separated two combs, and put between them a long, thick, rectangular strip of wax: the bees instantly began to excavate minute circular pits in it; and as they deepened these little pits, they made them wider and wider until they were converted into shallow basins, appearing to the eye perfectly true or parts of a sphere, and of about the diameter of a cell.
Hastings proceeded to build, to plant, to form a sheet of water, to excavate a grotto; and, before he was dismissed from the bar of the House of Lords, he had expended more than forty thousand pounds in adorning his seat.
Quotes with EXCAVATE (3)
Paradoxically, our imperial global Anglo-American language is dull with the glitter of its own decay. In response, the new meta- physical poet might consider the following cleansing strategies: keep faith with the canonical writers of the past, study Homeric Greek, excavate etymologies, embrace threatened languages, practice the fine art of translation, listen regularly to the musical flow of the breath and the beat of the heart, switch off the television, become a votary of …
Somewhere between handling challenges, taking care of business, and juggling responsibilities, you may have lost pieces of yourself which you long to recover. Perhaps they were buried and forgotten long ago. Rediscovering is more than just being reminded of these golden treasures. It is being able to excavate your riches by pulling them out, polishing them off, and allowing them to shine again.
If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1976–2022).