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excavate
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    The dentist excavated the diseased area.
    excavated = removed
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    [The dirt] expanded when it was excavated. The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep.  (source)
    excavated = dug out
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    You could get a perfect image of the bones, in three dimensions, and it promised a whole new era of archaeology without excavation.  (source)
    excavation = digging to uncover ancient, buried objects
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    He struggled to continue digging as he fought the wind, which often blew the sand back into the excavation.  (source)
    excavation = the hole being dug
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    That crypt is being excavated and examined now.  (source)
    excavated = carefully dug out and exposed
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    All the squares formerly built up solidly were now so many black excavations, while the streets had the appearance of raised turnpikes intersecting each other on a level prairie.  (source)
    excavations = large holes
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    Clayborn Lockett, an archaeologist who briefly employed Ruess as a cook while excavating an Anasazi cliff dwelling in 1934, told Rusho that "he was appalled by the seemingly reckless manner in which Everett moved around dangerous cliffs."†  (source)
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    I stuck my arm elbow-deep into the bird to excavate any meat clinging to the rib cage.†  (source)
    excavate = to dig out purposefully
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    Like columns of dust, countless pillars of unexcavated earth rose up, supporting a dirt sky, which hung low over the penumbral hamlet.†  (source)
    unexcavated = not dug out
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unexcavated means not and reverses the meaning of excavated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    One wall of the museum was open to the original Bixby excavation, the walkways suspended a few feet from the raw earth.  (source)
    excavation = archaeological dig-- where antiquities were unearthed
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    The disintegrating wagon was half excavated.†  (source)
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    The business of the Indian excavations was completely secret, since they were part of the historical heritage of the nation.†  (source)
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    They found her when they were excavating the concrete slab in the DiLaurentises' old backyard to put in a tennis court.†  (source)
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