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dig out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dig, dig up, dig outverb

    remove, harvest, or recover by digging

    "dig salt"; "dig coal"

  2. dig outverb

    dig out from underneath earth or snow

  3. dig, dig outverb

    create by digging

    "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel"

Wiktionary

  1. dig outverb

    To find, or retrieve something by removing overlying material, or material that hides it

Rap Dictionary

  1. dig outverb

    To have sexual intercourse. "By 2 am. I was diggin' her out" -- Ice Cube (Ghetto bird).

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dig out in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dig out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of dig out in a Sentence

  1. Vasdev Rai Pratap:

    I didn't know how dangerous the work in the mines is. Had I known, I would never have let him go, they said it took almost a day to dig out his body after the mine collapsed. They cremated him without telling me. I didn't even see my boy before they set him alight.

  2. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy:

    There was a breakdown over the last decade, these are hard lessons learned, but we're trying to dig out quickly.

  3. Cameron Todd:

    The mine never gets any bigger, you just fill in one end and dig out the other. You don't have an oil sands area the size of the city of Calgary.

  4. Mukaibar Shah:

    Probe should be started against the media that has reported about rising Covid cases in schools to dig out its actual source of funding the program and the culprit behind it.

  5. Steve Kerr:

    There’s more games coming, so we’ve got to do this ourselves. We got to dig out of the mud, and nobody’s going to help us.


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  • ausgrabenGerman
  • dénicherFrench
  • изыскивать, откапывать, находитьRussian

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