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
Now, a team of Ukrainian and U.S. archaeologists is surveying another category of destruction: damage to Ukraine’s archaeological heritage, much of which remains underground, often unexcavated and undocumented.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2023
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
In a last bid to find traces of the Appian Way's founding stones, archaeologists will extract samples of what remains unexcavated via a core drill before covering up the site.
From Reuters ● Jan. 24, 2023
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
