unveil vs excavate

unveil and excavate both are verbs.

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

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

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

unveil (verb)	excavate (verb)
remove the veil from	find by digging in the ground
remove the cover from	remove the inner part or the core of
make manifest	form by hollowing
	recover through digging