Aushub — meaning in English
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English meaning
- excavation noun The act of digging out earth to create a hole, trench, or foundation.
- spoil verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
Senses
Aushub is used for these senses in English:
- excavation (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- spoil (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
excavation — full definition
- noun The act of digging out earth to create a hole, trench, or foundation.
- noun An archaeological dig, or the site where one is taking place.
- noun A hollow or pit produced by digging.
spoil — full definition
- verb To ruin something, making it unusable, unpleasant, or less enjoyable.
- verb To indulge someone, especially a child, so much that it damages their character.
- verb (of food) To go bad.
- noun Plunder or loot taken by force, often in the phrase "the spoils of war."
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