How to pronounce excavate
American English pronunciation
EKS-kuh-vayt
- IPA
- /ˈɛkskəˌveɪt/
- Syllables
- EKS · kuh · vayt (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What excavate means
To dig out and uncover something buried
In a sentence: Scientists excavated the dinosaur bones one careful scrape at a time.
Where it comes from: It first appeared in 1599, from a Latin word meaning "to hollow out," which comes from the word for a cave or hole.
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