Sub-excavation

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Noun
  1. 1
    An excavation underneath something, or the excavation of a subgrade

    "We were grading the road and found a soft spot where we did a sub-excavation."

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"We were grading the road and found a soft spot where we did a sub-excavation."

Etymology

From sub- + excavation.

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