dig : Idioms & Phrases

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dig in

  • verb occupy a trench or secured area
    entrench.
    • The troops dug in for the night
  • verb eat heartily
    pitch in.
    • The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in
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dig into

  • verb examine physically with or as if with a probe
    probe; poke into.
    • probe an anthill
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dig out

  • verb remove, harvest, or recover by digging
    dig out; dig.
    • dig salt
    • dig coal
  • verb dig out from underneath earth or snow
  • verb create by digging
    dig.
    • dig a hole
    • dig out a channel
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dig up

  • verb find by digging in the ground
    turn up; excavate.
    • I dug up an old box in the garden
  • verb remove, harvest, or recover by digging
    dig out; dig.
    • dig salt
    • dig coal
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digging up

  • noun the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
    exhumation; disinterment.
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infra dig

  • adjective satellite beneath your dignity
    • considered helping with the dishes to be infra dig
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To dig down

  • to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
Webster 1913

To dig from, out of, out, ∨ up

  • to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
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To dig in

  • to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure. (b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; used of warfare. Also figuratively, esp. in the phrase
Webster 1913

to dig in one's heels

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