Hyphenation of excavates

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word excavates? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ex-ca-vates

Definitions of excavates:

1.
Recover through digging
Schliemann excavated Troy Excavate gold
2.
Find by digging in the ground
I dug up an old box in the garden
3.
Form by hollowing
Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team Excavate a cavity
4.
Remove the inner part or the core of
The mining company wants to excavate the hillside

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