excavate
verb🔊/ˈekskəveɪt/
🔊/ˈekskəveɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excavate | 🔊/ˈekskəveɪt/ 🔊/ˈekskəveɪt/ |
| he / she / it excavates | 🔊/ˈekskəveɪts/ 🔊/ˈekskəveɪts/ |
| past simple excavated | 🔊/ˈekskəveɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈekskəveɪtɪd/ |
| past participle excavated | 🔊/ˈekskəveɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈekskəveɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form excavating | 🔊/ˈekskəveɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈekskəveɪtɪŋ/ |
to dig in the ground to look for old buildings or objects that have been buried for a long time; to find something by digging in this way 发掘，挖出（古建筑或古物） - excavate something
The site has been excavated by archaeologists. 这个遗址已被考古学家发掘出来。 🔊🔊 The area has not yet been fully excavated. 这个地方还没有被充分挖掘。 - excavate something from something
pottery and weapons excavated from the burial site 从墓地挖掘出的陶器和兵器
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- fully
- extensively
- …
- from
- excavate something
- excavate something (formal)
to make a hole, etc. in the ground by digging 挖掘，开凿，挖空（洞、隧道等）
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin excavat- ‘hollowed out’, from the verb excavare, from ex- ‘out’ + cavare ‘make or become hollow’ (from cavus ‘hollow’).