Past tense of excavate

Forms of excavate

Excavated in a sentence

• When excavated soil is carelessly mounded around the base of a tree, the tree gradually suffocates.1998, David Reed, The Art and Craft of Stonescaping: Setting and Stacking Stone, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry tree well
• The tree was excavated from Tomb 8 at Jiyuan, Sijiangou in Henan Province.1994, Bulletin, numbers 66-67, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28. From the entry Sijiangou
• A fifth negative test pit was excavated near the largest creek at Middle Point.1988 February, Rachel Joan Dale, J. David McMahan, “Research Methodology and Results”, in Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed North…. From the entry deadfall
• A recently excavated example dated to the fourth- second century B.C. was discovered at Huhehaote.1981, P. R. S. Moorey, Emma C. Bunker, Edith Porada, Glenn Markoe, Ancient Bronzes Ceramics and Seals, Los Angeles County Museum of Art…. From the entry Huhehaote
• The lei of Pl. 49b, also excavated in Shensi, comes from the same atelier.1977, William Watson, “Preface to Second Edition”, in Ancient Chinese Bronzes (The Arts of the East), 2nd edition, London: Faber and…. From the entry T'un-hsi

Meaning of excavate

1. verb To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
2. verb To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
3. verb To uncover (something) by digging.

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Questions about the past tense of excavate

What is the past tense of excavate?

The past tense of excavate is excavated.

What is the past participle of excavate?

The past participle of excavate is excavated.

Is excavate a regular or irregular verb?

Excavate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.