Both Uses
excavate
in
Holes, by Louis Sachar
(Edited)
- [The dirt] expanded when it was excavated. The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep.
p. 34.1 *excavated = dug out
- After a while, she told the boys to switch places, so that Stanley, Zigzag, and Magnet dug in the holes, and Zero, Armpit, and Squid shoveled the excavated dirt into the wheelbarrows.
p. 71.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)