Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

re-excavation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English

Syllables: re-ex-ca-va-tion
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A repeated excavation

Example Sentences

"The loess also, in the suburbs and neighbourhood of Liége, occurring at various heights in patches lying at between 20 and 200 feet above the river, cannot be explained without supposing the filling up and re-excavation of the valleys at a period posterior to the washing in of the animal remains into most of the old caverns."
"Olsen (1968) describes some of the methods used in the re-excavation of the Viking fortress at Trelleborg, first excavated between 1934 and 1943 (Norland 1948)."
"Re-excavation of mass graves is an important area of investigation."

Etymology

From re- + excavation.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re

Inflected Forms

re-excavations (plural) reexcavation (alternative)

Questions

What does re-excavation mean?: A repeated excavation
Where does re-excavation come from?: From re- + excavation.

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