'Excavated' definitions:

Definition of 'Excavated'

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  • 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]

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