backfilled
Replaced excavated earth
Backfilled is the past tense of backfill, which means to refill an excavated hole with the material removed from it or with other material.
Construction crews backfill trenches after laying pipes.
The term extends to filling gaps more broadly: The position was backfilled after she left.
In data contexts, backfilling means adding historical data retroactively: We backfilled the database with records from previous years.
Pressed into less space
- gradedAssigned a score
- leveledMade flat or equal
- tampedCompressed by repeated blows
- excavatedDug up systematically
soil · gravel · earth · dirt · trench · foundation · retaining · drainage
Reviewing what came before
- amendedChanged to improve
- revisedChanged after reconsideration
- updatedMade current or modern
- correctedFixed what was wrong
adjusted · modified · altered · rectified · historical · after-the-fact · reconstructed · recalculated
compacted
Pressed into less space
excavated · soil · gravel · earth · dirt · trench · foundation · retaining · drainage · slope
retrospective
Reviewing what came before
corrected · adjusted · modified · altered · rectified · historical · after-the-fact · reconstructed · recalculated · backdated
populated
Having inhabitants
loaded · entered · recorded · logged · uploaded · synced · restored · recovered · reconstructed · database