excavate
verb (used with object)
to make hollow by removing the inner part; make a hole or cavity in; form into a hollow, as by digging.
unexcavated
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a word derived from
excavate.
Example Sentences
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There’s not a layer that has gone unexcavated in a performance of extraordinary verbal facility and color.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Men and women watched rescue workers from the rooftops, shouting out advice as teams drilled cautiously through unexcavated rooms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2023
After a long morning, they found a vast, unmapped mound known to their local guide as Cehtzuc, which is still unexcavated.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022
With about 37,312 houses destroyed by the quake, according to Haitian authorities, and many of those still unexcavated, the death toll is expected to rise.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2021
Almost wholly unexcavated since its discovery, the Calakmul we came to lay swathed in dry, scrubby vegetation that crawled like a swarm of thorns up its two huge pyramids.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
