EXCAVATING Synonyms

• the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

• laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment

• the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry

• a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

• cover before cooking

• search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

• remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

• the quantity a scoop will hold

• a hollow concave shape made by removing something

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

• the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

• a large ladle

• take out or up with or as if with a scoop

• get the better of

• To move materials with a shovel.

• To move with a shoveling motion.

• The act by which something is shovelled.

• discover by investigation

• recover through digging

• the site of an archeological exploration

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)

• the act of digging

• the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

• turn up, loosen, or remove earth

• create by digging

• work hard

• remove, harvest, or recover by digging

• thrust down or into

• remove the inner part or the core of

• poke or thrust abruptly

• get the meaning of something

• not solid; having a space or gap or cavity

• a cavity or space in something

• a small valley between mountains

• a depression hollowed out of solid matter

• as if echoing in a hollow space

• devoid of significance or force

• lacking in substance or character

• remove the inner part or the core of

• remove the interior of

• discover by investigation

• recover through digging

• find by digging in the ground

• remove, harvest, or recover by digging

• appear or become visible; make a showing

• bend or lay so that one part covers the other

• discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining

• be shown or be found to be

• find by digging in the ground