excavate
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～ find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
excavate
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～ form by hollowing; "Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team"; "excavate a cavity"
excavate
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～ recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
excavate
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～ remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
excavation
— Noun
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～ a hole in the ground made by excavating
excavation
— Noun
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～ the site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig"
excavation
— Noun
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～ the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
excavation
— Noun
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～ the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
excavator
— Noun
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～ a workman who excavates for foundations of buildings or for quarrying
excavator
— Noun
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～ a machine for excavating
exceed
— Verb
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～ be superior or better than some standard; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"
exceed
— Verb
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～ be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"
exceed
— Verb
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～ be greater in scope or size than some standard; "Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds"
exceedance
— Noun
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～ (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time; "the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling"
exceeding
— Adjective
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～ far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
exceedingly
— Adverb
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～ to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant"; "she is super smart"; "the night was deathly cold"; "as a child, I was deathly afraid of snakes"
excel at
— Verb
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～ be good at; "She shines at math"
excel
— Verb
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～ distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math"
excellence
— Noun
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～ an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine"
excellence
— Noun
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～ the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree