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Dig out   /dɪg aʊt/   Listen
Dig out

verb
1.
Remove, harvest, or recover by digging.  Synonyms: dig, dig up.  "Dig coal"
2.
Dig out from underneath earth or snow.
3.
Create by digging.  Synonym: dig.  "Dig out a channel"






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"Dig out" Quotes from Famous Books



... which seriously hampers one in his movements. What I should like, if it were permitted, would be to come quite fresh to a question year after year, and say upon it exactly what happened to be convenient, without having before my eyes the certainty that somebody would dig out what I said on the same subject last year, or ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., November 8, 1890 • Various

... marked alike. I dare say that no two of Jimmy's children would be exactly alike. I suspect that one or more might be all black, with perhaps a little bit of white on the tail. Notice that Jimmy's front feet have long, sharp claws. He uses these to dig out grubs and insects in the ground, and for pulling over sticks and stones in his search for beetles. Also notice that he places his feet on the ground very much as does Buster Bear. That big, bushy tail of his is ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... delineates created intelligences, ranging from the highest seraph to him who was only "less than archangel ruined." We gaze, unreproved by conscience, at the rapid rise of Pandemonium; we watch with eager interest the hellish crew as they "open into the hill a spacious wound, and dig out ribs of gold." We admire ...
— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

... while. Men will come with shovels to dig out the train. We can soon see what has happened, for the auto road passes ...
— The Curlytops and Their Playmates - or Jolly Times Through the Holidays • Howard R. Garis

... hour he managed to dig out a cubic yard of earth. Having satisfied his hunger for exercise, he flung the shovel down and began ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild


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