excavate

Other forms of excavate

past tense

excavated·

present participle

excavating·

third person

excavates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about excavate

What does excavate mean?

excavate means "recover through digging". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excavate?

excavate has 3 syllables: ex-ca-vate. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛkskəˌveɪt/.

What is another word for excavate?

Close synonyms include unearth, dig up, turn up, dig, hollow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is excavate a common word?

excavate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with excavate?

12 words rhyme with excavate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.