| 单词 | to excavate into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto excavate (something) into 1. transitive. To make hollow by removing the inside; to make hollow in, to hollow out; to dig out (soil) leaving a hollow. Also, to excavate (something) into: to form into by hollowing.Now chiefly with reference to the removal of earth by digging; the wider use tends to be felt as transferred from this. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > make hollow [verb (transitive)] holec1000 mine?a1425 hollowc1450 cave?1541 raven1560 excave1578 excavate1599 exconcavate1599 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 95/2 Take a sweete and fragrant Apple, excavate the same. 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 12 Reserve it [Dung] for use in some hard-bottom'd shady place, a little excavated. 1714 W. Derham Physico-theol. (ed. 2) viii. vi. 387 Flat Thecæ, some like Hats, some like Buttons excavated in the middle. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 197 [article Engineer] So much per cubic yard according to the nature of the soil to be excavated. 1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. viii. 202 The ground is excavated in a circular shape, so as to make a pit. 1853 C. Dickens Long Voy. in Househ. Words 31 Dec. 410/2 The foot of the cliff is excavated into a cavern. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 45 Viola tricolor..stigma capitate, excavated. Heartsease or Pansy. < as lemmas |
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