Definition of "excavates" [excavates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excavate. (verb)

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• "The second excavates the phenomenon of what the police term "mispers" – missing persons, people who sometimes have chosen to disappear and sometimes have not – among them, the victims of mass-murderer Frederick West."
• "The North American Gila Woodpecker excavates a living space within saguaro cacti."
• "Ocean/Corbis In "Future Babble," a delicious gathering of such useless conjecture, Dan Gardner samples from the finest experts known to mankind or at least to the mass media and excavates a trove of detailed research to show how a seemingly rational activity—calculating the probability of something happening—has turned into a continuous farce."