Excavation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXCAVATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of excavating
• the action of excavating something, especially an archaeological site
• a site that is being or has been excavated
• The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
• A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
• An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
• The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
• the act of digging
• the site of an archeological exploration
• a hole in the ground made by excavating
• the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the action or process of excavating

Words related to EXCAVATION

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Words that contain EXCAVATION

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How to use EXCAVATION in a sentence

• He could picture the fresh oblong excavation in the soil of the family burial ground.
• The inn is a plain structure of the usual stone-work of the hillside towns, and the stable, extending backward from the house proper, is largely an excavation in the rock.
• Without further talk, and quite gravely, they commenced to scoop out an excavation between them, piling the sand over themselves and on either side as was most convenient.
• I found a recent excavation at the spot, but no pedestal, which has probably been carried off by the Greek monks.
• Great heaps of soil, thrown out of the excavation, lay on either side.
• The principal excavation was begun at the point where the bed was deepest, and which consequently the older miners must have had most trouble in reaching.
• They found his body very early yesterday morning in a deep excavation near East Kensington Station.
• The two rode almost daily between Thompson City and the line of excavation, passing the house of Mrs.
• But these idiots of English are worse than the Turks! They have stopped all excavation.
• The excavation shows that the church stood on a sloping site, the floor level being some ten feet lower than that of Trinity Church.
• Reaching the mound of sand which surrounded our excavation, we crept to the top and peeped over into the crater.
• A short time ago a man applied for permission to perform a similar kind of excavation at a place called Nag Hamadi, and in my absence permission was given him.
• On the completion of the excavation, the entire vertical surface is then lined with rings of pine wood, so that the upper part down to the solid clay is doubly lined.
• When preparing the positions it is an excellent plan to build in the centre of each excavation a mound of earth over which to spread the fibrous roots.
• And this was necessary, because this tube had to be driven down every time an excavation of half a yard had been made.
• Another moment and the horses would have been in this excavation and even now the carriage swayed.
• Without more excavation, it is rash to pronounce positively, and perhaps even a minute search might be fruitless.
• This necessitated a great deal of excavation of the solid rock behind the Shrine in order to enable the arcade to be built.
• In this instance the reeds are also laid vertically, but they are applied to the ordinary mud-laid kiva wall and not directly to the sides of the natural excavation.
• Schliemann resolved to put his convictions to the test of actual excavation.
• In April, 1870, he cut the first sod of his excavation at Hissarlik.
• Doubtless systematic excavation in the various parts of the ruin would afford an explanation.
• During the past decade, excavation has gone on apace in Egypt and Babylonia, and discoveries of a startling and unexpected nature have followed in the wake of excavation.
• The whole had neatness about it, and showed a taste in the excavation.
• It was more of a job than she thought, and she dug away stoutly with her trowel for a good while before she had an excavation sufficient to hold the pot.
• Instead of a mound these insects made a habitation or excavation under the surface, about six feet in diameter, and it was quite smooth, level and clean, as if constantly swept.
• They began to scramble out of the excavation, darting furious glances behind them.
• So rapid is the pace of excavation and interpretation that all but the most recent narratives of the Ancient East are out of date.
• In consequence, an excavation was ordered by Charles III, the earliest result being the discovery of the theatre, with the statues above named.
• It turned through some slate heaps, lined the side of a deep excavation, and came to an abrupt end where some boards, placed crosswise, barred the sheer descent.

Similar words containing CAVA without suffix tion and without prefix ex

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