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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

ChatGPT

  1. dig out

    Dig out generally means to extract or remove something by digging or excavating, often from a hidden, covered or difficult to reach location. Additionally, it may refer to the process of finding or discovering information through careful searching. Furthermore, in the context of difficulty or trouble, dig out can mean to work one’s way out of a problematic or hard situation.

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. 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.

  2. Kuduni Sherpa:

    We all rushed out to the open and the next moment a huge wall of snow just piled on me, i managed to dig out of what could easily have been my grave. I wiggled and used my claws to dig as much as I could. I was suffocating, I could not breathe. But I knew I had to survive.

  3. Worker Nguyen Van Tuan:

    Dirt, rocks and mud tumbled in ... we came back to dig out our trapped colleagues but dirt and rocks kept falling as we dug, so we had to get help.

  4. Ilya Bobrovskiy:

    I took a helicopter to reach this very remote part of the world -- home to bears and mosquitoes -- where I could find Dickinsonia fossils with organic matter still intact, i had to hang over the edge of a cliff on ropes and dig out huge blocks of sandstone, throw them down, wash the sandstone and repeat this process until I found the fossils I was after.

  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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