excavate

Object

• trench: The main results came from a long trench excavated 25 meters east of Clark's original excavations.
• archeologist: We examined samples in the form of two monoliths supplied by the excavating archeologists.
• skeleton: Dig and excavate the skeleton of a mysterious prehistoric animal and then assemble the skeleton to form a dinosaur model.
• burrow: European beavers tend to live in natural holes in banks or excavate burrows with an underwater entrance.
• tomb: Egyptians - The Theban Mapping Project Homepage of the group excavating the largest tomb found in Egypt.
• amphitheater: I'd like to comment on the current effort to excavate the amphitheater and on its potential as a tourist attraction.

Subject

• archeologist: You imagine that after 1000 years the ' grave ' is excavated by archeologists.
• hand: A license will not normally be required where material is to be excavated by hand.

Modifying Another Word

• archeologically: An area 4 x 2.6m between Int 14 and the churchyard wall was excavated archeologically to a depth of 1.5m.
• illegally: Its primary purpose would be to record objects that have been stolen, illegally excavated or illegally removed from monuments or wrecks.
• partially: Little more, however, can be said about the ditch which was only partially excavated.
• extensively: The large country villa has been extensively excavated in recent years.
• partly: The up dip " inlet " coming into the end of the cave has also been partly excavated.
• systematically: Side is the only ancient city on Turkey's southern shore to have been excavated systematically.

Used with why or when

• which: Dugouts have been excavated which are thousands of years old.

Infinitive complement

• reveal: These target areas were later excavated to reveal concrete foundations.

Preposition: in

• 1930s: In any case, it was first excavated in the 1930s.
• 1960s: The Spanish Armada vessels, La Girona and La Trinidad Valencera, were excavated in the 1960s and 1970s.

Preposition: by

• archeologist: You imagine that after 1000 years the ' grave ' is excavated by archeologists.
• hand: A license will not normally be required where material is to be excavated by hand.