excavation

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the act of digging
"there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
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the site of an archeological exploration
"they set up camp next to the dig"
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a hole in the ground made by excavating
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is a type of (narrower)
a man-made object taken as a whole
the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth
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