excavate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
recover through digging
Schliemann excavated Troy
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- excavation derivation
- excavation derivation
- dig derivation
Sense 2 verb
find by digging in the ground
I dug up an old box in the garden
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- excavation derivation
- excavation derivation
- dig derivation
- locate verb group
Sense 3 verb
form by hollowing
Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team
Types & categories
- hollow out hypernym
Related & opposite
- excavation derivation
- power shovel derivation
- excavator derivation
Sense 4 verb
remove the inner part or the core of
the mining company wants to excavate the hillside
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- mining derivation
- excavation derivation
- excavation derivation
- dig derivation
- hollow derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dig |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bring out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dig out |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dig |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | locate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | obtain |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | grub up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | nuzzle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | disinter |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | power shovel |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavator |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | hollow out |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | mining |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dig |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | hollow |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | drive |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | trench |