dig up

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verb

1. find by digging in the ground (Freq. 2)
- I dug up an old box in the garden
• Syn:
excavate, turn up
• Derivationally related forms:
excavation (for: excavate)
• Hypernyms:
obtain
• Hyponyms:
grub up, grub out, nuzzle, disinter, exhume
• Verb Group:
locate, turn up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- dig salt
- dig coal
• Syn:
dig, dig out
• Hypernyms:
excavate, unearth
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something