Mine , excavate ,
The archaeologists will excavate the site next month to uncover ancient artifacts buried under the ground.
The archaeologists began to excavate the ancient ruins in search of valuable artifacts.
Excavation is a noun and so doesn't have a past tense.The past tense of excavate is excavated.
hollow out, mine, quarry, excavate, sccop out, tunnel, burrow, forage, delve
The noun forms of the verb to excavate are excavator, excavation, and the gerund, excavating.
excavate
Mine , excavate ,
The archaeologists will excavate the site next month to uncover ancient artifacts buried under the ground.
the explorers continued to EXCAVATE the dirt for fossils.
The builders will excavate at the work site
Excavate means to dig up, generally out of the ground. Example sentence: A bull dozer was used to excavate the foundation of the building.
It is difficult to excavate rocks from a building site.
The team of archaeolgists will now begin to excavate the site.
The archaeologists began to excavate the ancient ruins in search of valuable artifacts.
Excavation is a noun and so doesn't have a past tense.The past tense of excavate is excavated.
Excavate is not a prefix; it is a word. It does contain the prefix "ex-" which means "out" in this instance.