reveal vs excavate

reveal and excavate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
reveal	No	No	Yes	No
excavate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, excavate is a hyponym of reveal; that is, excavate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than reveal:

Other hyponyms of reveal include disclose, expose, uncover, unearth, trot out, unfold.

reveal (verb)	excavate (verb)
make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret	find by digging in the ground
make manifest	remove the inner part or the core of
disclose directly or through prophets	form by hollowing
	recover through digging