Word Finder - dug

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To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

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If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.

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To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.

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to dig potatoes

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To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

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To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

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To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.

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to dig out the facts

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To thrust; to poke.

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He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.

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To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

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To understand or show interest in.

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You dig?

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To appreciate, or like.

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Baby, I dig you.

He dug the keys out of his pocket.

She dug it out of her pocket.

Cheered by the sight of food, Deidre dug in.

All the good stuff here has been dug out already.

As if in answer to her question, he dug a tin from his shirt pocket and handed it to her.

He dug in his pocket.

I dug this out of a box of electronics upstairs and programmed it to be your new phone.

She dug her fingers into the soft sand, avoiding his eyes.

He swung his ice ax into the wall in front of him, dug in the toes of his crampons and began to ascend toward Dean.

She hated it and bitched at him the whole time she dug into his body.

I built dams of pebbles, made islands and lakes, and dug river-beds, all for fun, and never dreamed that I was learning a lesson.

I had dug out the spring and made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a pailful without roiling it, and thither I went for this purpose almost every day in midsummer, when the pond was warmest.

It was very bitter, but they wandered about the fields seeking it and dug it out with their sabers and ate it, though they were ordered not to do so, as it was a noxious plant.

She felt disappointed when he released her hand and dug in his pocket for the house key.

She dug it out of her pocket and opened it.

She scraped bones from a plate into a hole she had dug in the sand.

He dug in his pocket and produced two keys on their original ring.

He squatted and took some of the freshly dug soil in his hand, crushing the lumps and letting the dust run through his fingers.

I dug in a tub of iced beer and Quinn and I toasted the two cans as we sat back on Adirondack chairs to enjoy the late afternoon.

In my time too; the war brought some money in and coal was getting dug so's there was jobs.

We don't know what he might have dug up.

She dug through the pockets in her jeans and pulled out the stash of one dollar bills she'd been given for trips to the candy machine down the hall.

She cleaned him up then took a shower and dug out musty clothing from a trunk at the bottom of one wardrobe.

She guided the crying woman inside to her library and dug through the small satchel near her favorite chair.

Sofia slipped on oversized flip-flops Traci dug out of one of the closets.

I put the knife right against the left cheek of his butt and dug it in.

Kris crossed to his burnt-out bedchamber and dug through a trunk in the closet.

Some hunter's dog had probably dug it out.

Her tiny fingernails dug into his hand as she eagerly nursed.

His fingers dug into her arms and she cried out involuntarily.

Deidre dug in her heels before she reached him.

She dug out the envelope from the funeral home and tore it in half.

Deidre dug through her purse as she walked and pulled out her cell, thrilled to see she had battery power.

She pressed the front of her body against the building, dug her fingertips into indents in the stone, and slid her foot along the roughened ledge to the right, stepping slowly and forcing her head up.

He dragged her through it, and she dug her heels in.

She dug through one and withdrew a thick pad of paper and pack of pencils.

I poured cement in the hole he dug under the hen house.

There, he tossed his suitcase in the back and dug in his pockets for the keys.

Instead of listening to him, she dug out the water-breathers and life vests, each packaged in small plastic containers the size of her hand.

Brady grunted in response and dug into the steak on the plate before him.

He dug deeper into the pile of cement blocks and ashes before him.

Gypsum is dug in the Isle of Axholme, whiting is made from the chalk near the shores of the Humber, and lime is made on the Wolds.

Pits are dug about 2 ft.

Several Mangaboos came forward with glass spades and dug a hole in the ground.

The pond was my well ready dug.

It was made of two white pine logs dug out and pinned together, and was cut off square at the ends.

Leaf radish grows best in a light, well-drained soil, which has had manure dug in for another crop the season before.

The formation was dug down slightly where it had become rucked up and then the sleepers were laid out.

Wells must be dug, pipes laid and skeptic tanks built in great numbers if the aims are to be realized.

Shovel pit testing holes are dug over a grid system which is used for all the survey techniques we are using on the farm.