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 Translation for 'to excavate' from English to Slovak
VERB   to excavate | excavated | excavated
excavating | excavates
SYNO to dig | to dig up | to excavate | ...
vykopať [dok.]to excavate
bagrovať [nedok.]to excavate
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Translation for 'to excavate' from English to Slovak

to excavate
vykopať [dok.]

bagrovať [nedok.]
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Usage Examples English
  • He continued to excavate in Egypt after taking up the professorship, training many of the best archaeologists of the day.
  • In response, in February 2011 the Ministry of Health began to excavate the site.
  • This statement was an answer to the, at the time, Greek prime minister Costas Simitis who urged the archaeologists to stop their research in Egypt and sent a Greek Embassy advisor to ask the Egyptian government to withdraw Mrs Souvaltzi’s permission to excavate in the area.
  • Marshall decided to use the natural force of the river to excavate and enlarge the tailrace.
  • After considerable effort, he was unable to excavate the entrance to the temple.

  • The French architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff witnessed the exhibition of Angell's find and endeavoured to excavate Temple B at Selinus.
  • It is common practice to locate a tunnel deeper than otherwise would be required, in order to excavate through solid rock or other material that is easier to support during construction.
  • In the summer of 2009, an archaeological field study began to excavate Mother Priscilla Baltimore's freedom village.
  • With the rise of modern archaeology in the early 20th century, archeologists began to excavate and investigate bog bodies more carefully and thoroughly.
  • The decision was then made to destroy the impression in order to excavate underneath.

  • In January 2012, a local historian, Miguel Caballero Pérez, author of "The last 13 hours of García Lorca", applied for permission to excavate another area less than half a kilometre from the site, where he believes Lorca's remains are located.
  • Houses in Saumur are constructed almost exclusively of Tuffeau stone. The caves dug to excavate the stone are now often used as commercial wine cellars.
  • They usually come with larger courtyards since it doesn't bother to excavate.
  • Work still continues today as groups continue to excavate and research the mausoleum's art.
  • In February 2007, the department started to excavate a site for archaeological remains in a location where the government wanted to rebuild a collapsed pedestrian bridge leading to the Mughrabi Gate, the only entrance for non-Muslims into the Temple Mount complex.

  • In 2005 construction plans for a lot on the hill offered the opportunity to the "Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventatives" (Inrap) to excavate.
  • In the mid-1980s, the Maldivian government allowed Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl to excavate ancient sites.
  • To clean up the massive spill, the crew had to excavate enough soil to fill a football field up to [...] high.
  • Upon closer examination, Kulik located holes that he erroneously concluded were meteorite holes; he did not have the means at that time to excavate the holes.
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