Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for excavated

excavated

Advertisement

Discover More

Example Sentences

Many incidents in the book show the courage and grit it took to find and excavate Ardi in Ethiopia’s remote Middle Awash area, where local nomadic groups are prone to shoot at outsiders.

Those people used to build kurgans, burial mountains, that archaeologists excavated to study cultural remains.

The male selects the spot in a bank where they’ll take turns excavating the nest.

He and his team examined six skeletons excavated from a site in southern Peru, two of which were buried with hunting tools.

To better understand the extent of ancient female hunting, Haas’ group reviewed evidence from 429 excavated individuals buried at 107 sites, including Wilamaya Patjxa, throughout the Americas.

Greece has high hopes that the giant tomb now being excavated at Amphipolis contains one of these ancient Macedonian leaders.

His cousin died in 2009 when an illegally excavated archaeological site collapsed on top of him.

At the edge of an already excavated grave a single bullet was fired into the back of her head and she fell lifeless into the hole.

She seemed unusually cheerful for someone whose backyard was about to be lightly excavated.

This 3,000-year-old language was discovered on clay tablets excavated in 1900 on the island of Crete.

Only a comparatively small portion has been excavated, but the city enclosed by the wall covered nearly one square mile.

An endless forest, the impenetrable earth; the one to be removed, and the other to be excavated.

The following engraving, after a sketch by Maitland, shows a gallery wider and more rudely excavated.

These are chambers excavated in the tufa on either side of the galleries, with which they communicate by doors, as seen in Fig. 4.

It has completely buried the ancient roads, except where excavated, as shown in the engraving.

Synonym of the day

Which one is a synonym for hostile?Get the answer

Start each day with the Synonym of the Day in your inbox!

By clicking "Sign Up", you are accepting Dictionary.com Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies.

On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to excavated, such as: biconcave, cupped, dented, dimpled, dipped, and hollow.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement