💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Excave"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| excavateverb | (transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out. |
| delveverb | (ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out |
| exhumateverb | To exhume; to disinter. |
| dig upverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To discover something by digging; to unearth. |
| exaratenoun | (entomology, of a pupa) Having the appendages free and not attached to the body wall. |
| excarnificateverb | (transitive, obsolete) To strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture. |
| hollownoun | An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. |
| dig outverb | (transitive) To remove something by digging. |
| excurnoun | (rare) To take an excursion. |
| incaveverb | (intransitive) To cave inward. |
| exhumeverb | (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. |
| cavenoun | A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. |
| exscindverb | (chiefly medicine, surgery) To cut out. |
| groinnoun | The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. |
| stock upverb | (intransitive) To acquire or increase stock or inventory. [(often) with on] |
| overbreaknoun | (civil engineering, geology) Rock or earth excavated beyond the planned extent; caving in of material near the edge of an excavation. |
| extirpverb | (transitive, obsolete) To extirpate (something). |
| expurgeverb | (transitive, obsolete) To expurgate. |
| excideverb | (transitive) To cut off. |
| exectnoun | (transitive, obsolete) To cut off or out. |
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