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excavation

Main Entry:
excavation [eks-kuh-vey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: site of digging; digging
Synonyms: blasting, burrow, cavity, cut, cutting, dig, disinterring, ditch, dugout, exhuming, hole, hollow, mine, mining, pit, quarry, removal, scooping, shaft, shoveling, trench, trough, unearthing
Antonyms: filling
Main Entry: basement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: room on lower floor of building
Synonyms: bottom, cellar, crypt, excavation, furnace room, storage, substructure, subterranean room, underbuilding, understructure, vault
Notes: a cellar is a storage place, usually underground, for foodstuffs etc; basement is the lowest story of a building, part or wholly below ground level
Antonyms: attic
Main Entry: depression
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: concavity, cavity
Synonyms: basin, bowl, crater, dent, dimple, dip, excavation, hole, hollow, impression, indentation, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, vacuity, vacuum, valley, void
Antonyms: bulge, convexity, protuberance
Main Entry: ditch
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gulley
Synonyms: canal, channel, chase, cut, dike, drain, excavation, furrow, gutter, mine, moat, trench, watercourse
Main Entry: gouge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: groove, hole
Synonyms: channel, cut, excavation, furrow, gash, hollow, notch, scoop, score, scratch, trench
Main Entry: hole
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opening in a solid object
Synonyms: aperture, breach, break, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, chasm, chink, cistern, cleft, covert, crack, cranny, crater, cut, den, dent, depression, dimple, dip, excavation, eyelet, fissure, foramen, fracture, gap, gash, gorge, hollow, hovel, keyhole, lacuna, lair, leak, mouth, nest, niche, nick, notch, orifice, outlet, passage, peephole, perforation, pit, pocket, pockmark, puncture, rent, retreat, scoop, shaft, shelter, space, split, tear, tunnel, vacuity, vent, void, window
Notes: a hole is an opening or cavity into or through something, while whole means complete, not divided
Antonyms: closure, solid
Main Entry: hollow
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: empty or dented area
Synonyms: basin, bottom, bowl, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, channel, cleft, concavity, crater, cup, dale, den, depression, dimple, dip, dish, excavation, groove, gulf, hole, indentation, notch, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, sinkage, sinkhole, socket, trough, vacuity, valley, void
Antonyms: solid
Main Entry: mine
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deposit, supply
Synonyms: abundance, bed, bonanza, ditch, excavation, field, fount, fountain, fund, gold mine, hoard, lode, pit, quarry, reserve, shaft, source, spring, stock, store, treasure trove, treasury, trench, vein, wealth, well, wellspring
Main Entry: pit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hole, cavity
Synonyms: abyss, chasm, crater, dent, depression, dimple, excavation, grave, gulf, hell, hollow, indentation, mine, perforation, pockmark, pothole, puncture, shaft, tomb, trench, well
Antonyms: mountain
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