excavated

Meaning

of Excavate

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

concave sunken unearth dented disinter incurved dig up hollow out incurvate dug unburied cupped biconcave dimpled mined
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

covered laid buried embedded ingrained planted
Show all antonyms

Phrases with the word

excavated area sub-excavated

Examples

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. Dorothy Allison

He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining. P. G. Wodehouse

For every mound excavated in the Near East, a hundred remain untouched. ...most of the excavated mounds have been dug only in small part. Cyrus H. Gordon

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know. Jonathan Kozol

According to the excavated Naval Inventories, lists of ships' equipment compiled by the Athenian naval boards, there were: *62 thranitai in the top row (thranos means "deck"). Source: Internet

A decapitated seventh century Saxon man was excavated from Stonehenge in 1923. Source: Internet