1. (v. t.) To uncover or make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging as, to excavate an archaeological site\.

2. (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.

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

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