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excavate

verb
  1. remove the inner part or the core of
    “the mining company wants to excavate the hillside”
    dig
  2. form by hollowing
    “Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team”
  3. find by digging in the ground
    turn up
  4. recover through digging
    “Schliemann excavated Troy”
    unearth