excavation

Meaning of excavation

noun
  1. the action of excavating something, especially an archaeological site.
    the methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous

Information about excavation

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of excavation is: excavations.
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Hyphenation of excavation

ex-ca-va-tion

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
  • excavation is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

excavation synonyms

Meaning digging:

digging, dig

Meaning dig:

dig

Meaning mining:

mining

Meaning find (something) in the ground by digging:

unearthing

Meaning remove a cover or covering from:

uncovering

Meaning making interesting or significant information known, especially of a personal nature:

revealing

Meaning the action of digging up something buried, especially a corpse:

exhumation

Meaning make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade:

gouging

Meaning not interesting; tedious:

boring

Meaning direct towards a particular end or object:

channelling

Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:

sinking

Meaning extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry:

quarrying

Meaning a hollow place in a solid body or surface:

hole

Meaning a hole or depression in something:

hollow

Meaning an empty space within a solid object:

cavity

Meaning a large hole in the ground:

pit

Meaning a large bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on a celestial object, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite:

crater

Meaning the action of cutting something:

cutting

Meaning a long, narrow ditch:

trench

Meaning a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of:

trough

Translation of excavation

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