All 3 Uses of
excavate
in
The Da Vinci Code
- This park had once been an enormous, polluted excavation pit from which Parisian contractors mined clay to manufacture the city's famous red roofing tiles—or tuiles.†
Chpt 3 *
- For almost a decade, the nine Knights lived in the ruins, excavating in total secrecy through solid rock.†
Chpt 37-38
- Archaeologists petitioned to begin blasting through the bedrock to reach the mysterious chamber, but the Rosslyn Trust expressly forbade any excavation of the sacred site.†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(excavate) to dig outin various senses, including:
- remove or lay bare -- as when removing top soil to lay a foundation
- find or uncover -- as at an archaeological site
- remove a part -- as a tooth from the gum that surrounds it