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excave

/ɛkˈskeɪv/

excave verb: to excavate.

Verb

excave (third-person singular simple present excaves, present participle excaving, simple past and past participle excaved)

  1. (obsolete) To excavate.
    • the last 100 to 150 feet in depth of those valleys have, however, been excaved by the rivers1868, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Some account of the Blackmore museum

excave meaning in Bengali

excave in Bengali

খনন করা

Forms of excave

third-person singular presentexcaves
present participleexcaving
past participleexcaved
pastexcaved

Origin of excave

From Latin excavare.

Words that rhyme with excave

29 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about excave

What does excave mean?
Excave means to excavate.
What is excave in Bengali?
Excave in Bengali is খনন করা. See Excave meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is excave?
Excave is a verb.
How do you pronounce excave?
Excave is pronounced /ɛkˈskeɪv/.
What is the past tense of excave?
The past tense of excave is excaved.

Words near excave in the dictionary

  1. excavatorial
  2. excavators
  3. excavatory
  4. excavatrices
  5. excavatrix
  6. excave
  7. Exceat
  8. excecate
  9. excecated
  10. excecates
  11. excecating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excave (page history and authors); excave (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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