Hyphenation of excavation

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word excavation? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

ex-ca-va-tion

Definitions of excavation:

1.	The act of digging There's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton
2.	The site of an archeological exploration They set up camp next to the dig
3.	A hole in the ground made by excavating
4.	The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

Synonyms of excavation:

noun	digging, dig, creating by removal
noun	dig, archeological site, site, land site
noun	hole in the ground, artifact, artefact
noun	mining, production

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