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Dig

verb

(past & past part. dug, digged is archaic; pres. part. digging)

1.

Turn up, loosen, or remove earth. Synonyms: cut into, delve, turn over. "Turn over the soil for aeration"

2.

Create by digging. Synonym: dig out. "Dig out a channel"

3.

Work hard. Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail. "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

4.

Remove, harvest, or recover by digging. Synonyms: dig out, dig up. "Dig coal"

5.

Thrust down or into. "Dig your foot into the floor"

6.

Remove the inner part or the core of. Synonyms: excavate, hollow.

7.

Poke or thrust abruptly. Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab.

8.

Get the meaning of something. Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy.

noun

1.

The site of an archeological exploration. Synonyms: archeological site, excavation.

2.

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect. Synonyms: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam. "She threw shafts of sarcasm" , "She takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

3.

A small gouge (as in the cover of a book).

4.

The act of digging. Synonyms: digging, excavation.

5.

The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow. Synonym: jab.

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"Dig" Quotes from Famous Books

... we were studying we were drilled just as though we were actually at war. We were compelled to dig in, to find the range on certain objects and to direct imaginary artillery fire upon them. We had to find the range of airplanes that passed over us, just as though they were enemy planes. This drilling was as near like actual warfare ...

— In the Flash Ranging Service - Observations of an American Soldier During His Service - With the A.E.F. in France • Edward Alva Trueblood

... after turning into the open yard of the house, it suddenly vanishes and leaves him by himself. At this he gathers some grass and leaves, and marks the spot with them. The next day he goes to the magistrates and urges them to dig up the spot in question; and they find bones tangled with chains through which they were passed... These they put together and bury at the public charge. The spirit being thus duly, laid, the house was henceforward ...

— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker

... found dead by the side of the creek, with his feet in the water. He must have gone down at night to get water, but too much exhausted to perform his task, had sat down and died there. None of us being strong enough to dig a grave for him, we sewed the body in a blanket, with a few stones to sink it, and then put it into the ...

— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray

... behind every bottom, beneath every "foundation." Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy—this is a recluse's verdict: "There is something arbitrary in the fact that the PHILOSOPHER came to a stand here, took a retrospect, and looked around; that he HERE laid his spade aside and did not dig any deeper—there is also something suspicious in it." Every philosophy also CONCEALS a philosophy; every opinion is also a LURKING-PLACE, every word ...

— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche

... I stuck it in the bottom of the tomb, which was about four feet above the floor of the passage, and drawing my large dagger, I proceeded to dig a hole in the left-hand corner nearest the front. The earth was dry and free from stones, and I soon made a hole two feet deep, at the bottom of which I placed my box. Then I covered it up, pressing the earth ...

— The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander • Frank R. Stockton

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