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sub-excavation

noun

Etymology

From sub- + excavation.

  1. derived from *ḱewh₁-✻
  2. borrowed from excavātiō
  3. prefixed as sub-excavation — “sub + excavation”

Definitions

  1. An excavation underneath something, or the excavation of a subgrade

    • We were grading the road and found a soft spot where we did a sub-excavation.

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