Excavation Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕkskə-vāshən
The act of excavating
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. digging
  2. dig
  3. unearthing
  4. disinterring
  5. mining
  6. quarrying
  7. exhuming
  8. scooping out
  9. digging-out
  10. scouring
  11. shoveling
  12. blasting
  13. removal
  14. digging a basement
  15. digging a foundation
  16. using a back hoe
  17. using a trencher
  18. cut and fill
  19. stoping
  20. burrowing
  21. tunneling
  22. pick and shoveling
  23. mucking out
  24. archeological site
Antonyms:
  1. filling
The result of excavating
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hole
  2. cavity
  3. hollow
  4. pit
The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mining

Words Related to Excavation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. fieldwalking
  2. excavate
  3. field-walking
  4. earthwork
  5. re-excavation
  6. archeological
  7. iron-age
  8. excavations
  9. nosterfield
  10. bronze-age
  11. archaelogical
  12. post-excavation
  13. wroxeter
  14. Dunragit

Excavation Sentence Examples

  • His latest excavation work was at Aegina.

  • In January 1897 he carried the work of excavation farther.

  • It remains for excavation to show whether this hypothesis is or is not correct.

  • The caving in of mine workings results from the excavation of large areas supported upon pillars of insufficient size.

  • Except so far as the excavation of the pillar is concerned the site has not been explored, and four small stupas there (already noticed by Hsuan Tsang) have not been opened.

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