Synonyms for excavation

noun

1. The act of excavating

   digging, unearthing, disinterring, mining, quarrying, exhuming, scooping out, digging out, scouring, shoveling, blasting, removal, digging a basement, digging a foundation, using a back hoe, using a trencher, cut and fill, stoping, burrowing, tunneling, pick and shoveling*, mucking out*.

2. The result of excavating

   hole, cavity, hollow, pit; see hole 3. See syn. study at hole.