Definitions for dig up
dig up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. excavate, dig up, turn upverb

   find by digging in the ground

   "I dug up an old box in the garden"

2. dig, dig up, dig outverb

   remove, harvest, or recover by digging

   "dig salt"; "dig coal"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dig upverb

   to excavate something

2. dig upverb

   to discover something by digging; to unearth

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Dig upverb

   To throw up that which is covered with earth.

   If I digg’d up thy forefather’s graves,
   And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
   It would not slake mine ire. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

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1. dig up

   To dig up refers to the action of removing or exposing something by digging into the ground or a surface. It could refer to literal digging to unearth objects or resources buried in the ground, or metaphorically, to discover or reveal hidden or forgotten information.

Matched Categories

1. • Excavate
   • Obtain

How to pronounce dig up?

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How to say dig up in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dig up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dig up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of dig up in a Sentence

1. Elissa Slotkin:

   The issue that got to me was this idea that the President, the most powerful man in the world, reached out to a foreigner, a foreign leader, and asked him to dig up dirt on an American.

2. Bill Gassett:

   I’ve had sellers with specific requests to take certain things that might have been a special gift, otherwise, you can’t just dig up a plant and take it with you; it’s part of the property.

3. Wan Junaidi:

   Although there are 139 graves, we have not managed to dig up all of them, forensics have to do it carefully so the bodies and evidence are preserved. We don't know how many there are, and who they are.

4. Lindsey Graham:

   We had a major American political party hire a foreign national, Christopher Steele, to dig up dirt on an American presidential candidate, as if that was not bad enough, the foreign national compiled an unverified dossier that was then used by The FBI to obtain a warrant against an American citizen and surveil an American presidential campaign.

5. Stephen Moore:

   If my nomination is about my views on the economy and my record on the economy, I'll win 60 votes, if it's about some things I wrote 20 years ago, and there's five full time investigative reporters looking at everything I've written, everything I've ever said, and they'll dig up stuff and people will think I'm some kind of scoundrel. In that case, I'll probably lose.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dig up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dig_Up
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=dig up
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com