re-excavate
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editre-excavate (third-person singular simple present re-excavates, present participle re-excavating, simple past and past participle re-excavated)
- To excavate again.
- 1889, The Calcutta Review, volume 89, page 59:
- In order, then, to improve the supply of drinking water, it is necessary to dig new tanks and clear and re-excavate old ones.
- 1974, Space Shuttle Program, Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB): Environmental Impact Statement, page F-34:
- Several reports in the literature indicate that these birds are well adapted to this condition and re-excavate burrows quickly.
- 2020 February 27, Howard Williams, Pauline Magdalene Clarke, Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, page 159:
- The plan to re-excavate was beset with problems: practical access was difficult (impossible by car), the whole area was desisgnate a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation.