EXCAVATION Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

excavation

noun

Definition of excavation

as in trench

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Recent Examples of excavation Historic brick sewers discovered during excavation work on the 16th Street Improvement Project. — Logan Smith, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 Village and township residents and officials have protested the nondestructive hydro-excavation business’s plan to relocate from Channahon to about 38 acres on 159th Street in Homer Township. — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026 Hisham El-Leithy, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Ahram that further excavation and research is needed in order to definitively confirm the connection. — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026 As for Sarah, once Geoff and Zoe finish with the excavation paperwork, her remains will be sent home where she can be properly buried and honored by her family. — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for excavation

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Noun

Add the chicest pair of clogs, slim-line sneakers, and the most versatile trench below to your cart.

— Anna Traver, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
The film, set in the Belgian trenches of the First World War, follows the love between two young soldiers who try, through art and intimacy, to escape the horrors around them.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of trench

Noun

After carefully entering the cave, the photographer watched as more turtles arrived with the rising tide, eventually counting 17 individuals sharing this quiet refuge.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Over time, this process creates fractures, caves and sinkholes.

— Nolan Roth, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of cave

Noun

This cushion is required at the very top of the caverns to keep the extraction pipes safely submerged in oil rather than the underlying water.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
The oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is stored at 60 salt caverns thousands of feet underground at four major sites along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of cavern

Noun

Their body temperature drops from about that of a human to as low as 41 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius), not much warmer than their burrows in winter.

— Brittany Peterson, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
As opposed to beavers that build dams and lodges, block streams and divert and channel water, these beavers dig underwater into the bank of the reservoir and access their burrows through underground tunnels.

— Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of burrow

Noun

Atomic force microscopy of the impact zones found pits several nanometers deep in places deeper than the entire thickness of the Teflon film, meaning the damage ran clean through the coating and into the metal.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Perhaps Huck, who did not respond to a request for comment, came to this realization a little late and is looking to avoid getting stuck in a money-pit situation.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of pit

Noun

In the spring, when the snow is melting and the springs that are high up in the rock cliffs some miles away are carrying it down full speed, the ditches overflow as does the little creek that runs near my cabin.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Though Sarnia’s industrial corridor is downstream from Lake Huron, several drainage ditches in the area are connected to creeks that flow into the lake, Corcoran said in an interview.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of ditch

Noun

The cavities could generate enough force to spin the blades at 13,000 revolutions per minute, which is an impressively high number.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2026
In its complaint, the real-estate firm points out that Urban Zen’s own lawsuit from June, alleging that rats are nesting in the cavities and holes of its Federal-style building from 1828, is evidence against them.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 25 Aug. 2026

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