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DIG UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Find by digging in the ground

Example:

I dug up an old box in the garden

Synonyms:

dig up; excavate; turn up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dig up" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Verb group:

locate; turn up (discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dig up"):

grub out; grub up (dig up)

nuzzle (dig out with the snout)

disinter; exhume (dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove, harvest, or recover by digging

Example:

dig coal

Synonyms:

dig; dig out; dig up

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "dig up" is one way to...):

excavate; unearth (recover through digging)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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