Excavate

(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'.

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• When a large quantity of water is desired, strong machines drill into the ground and excavate an opening into which a wide pipe can be lowered. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• On May 4, 1904, when the United States took charge, it was estimated that there was left to excavate 150,000,000 cubic yards. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• An English Company is going to excavate Ephesus--and then! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In operation it is lowered with open jaws, and by its own weight digs into the ground that is to be excavated. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Yuan Chwang gives an interesting account of a great Buddhist university at Nalanda, where ruins have quite recently been discovered and excavated. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Excavated earth is removed in a similar manner. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The pipe is lowered into contact with the bottom to be excavated and the material is pumped into hopper barges or into a hopper-well in the dredge itself. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This figure would also rest on the basis of using in the mixture the gravel excavated on the site. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The material excavated consisted largely of rock and formed one of the hugest engineering problems in the world’s history. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• This dredge is the only one found satisfactory in excavating rock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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