present participle of excavate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excavate

A person who excavates. / A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc. / A curette used to scrape out pathological material.

simple past tense and past participle of excavate

plural of excavator

plural of excavation

(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. / (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

(zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.

(transitive) To make a hole in (something); to hollow. / (transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out. / (transitive) To uncover (something) by digging.

(obsolete) To excavate.