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excavate

verb
/ˈɛk.skə.veɪt/

Etymology

First attested in 1599, from Latin excavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of excavō (“to hollow out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out”) + cavō (“to hollow out, pierce”), from cavus (“cave, hole”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

  1. borrowed from excavātus

Definitions

  1. To make a hole in (something)

    To make a hole in (something); to hollow.

  2. To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.

  3. To uncover (something) by digging.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Made hollow.

    2. excavated, hollowed out

    3. Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.

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Derived

excavatable, nonexcavated, re-excavate, unexcavated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at excavate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at excavate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at excavate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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