EX'CAVATE, verb transitive [Latin excavo; ex and cavo, to hollow, cavus, hollow. See Cave.] To hollow; to cut, scoop, dig or wear out the inner part of any thing and make it hollow; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth; to excavate the trunk of a tree and form a canoe.
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