Excavate

['ekskəveɪt] or ['ɛkskə'vet]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) remove the inner part or the core of; 'the mining company wants to excavate the hillside'.

(verb.) form by hollowing; 'Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team'; 'excavate a cavity'.

(verb.) find by digging in the ground; 'I dug up an old box in the garden'.

(verb.) recover through digging; 'Schliemann excavated Troy'; 'excavate gold'.

克林顿編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.

編輯:卢克

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Hollow, hollow out, scoop out, dig out, cut out.

整理:彼得

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Dig, hollow, trench, discover, deserter

ANT:Bury, fill_level, conceal, inter, inhume

艾弗里校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to hollow or scoop out: to dig out.—ns. Excavā′tion act of excavating: a hollow or cavity made by excavating; Ex′cavator one who excavates: a machine used for excavating.

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