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Definition of Dig up
1. Verb. Find by digging in the ground. "I dug up an old box in the garden"
Specialized synonyms: Grub Out, Grub Up, Nuzzle, Disinter, Exhume
Generic synonyms: Obtain
Related verbs: Locate, Turn Up
Derivative terms: Excavation, Excavation, Excavation
2. Verb. Remove, harvest, or recover by digging. "Dig coal"
Definition of Dig up
1. Verb. (transitive) to excavate something ¹
2. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) to discover something by digging; to unearth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dig Up
Literary usage of Dig up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"dig up the soil from a thousand feet below the surface, we call it new, and the
plants which spring from it; and when our vision pierces deeper into space, ..."
2. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1724)
"... Tint.! to delve or dig up Trees i alfo to muddle in the Dirt. GRUB, a Sort of
Maggot! alfo a Dwarf or ..."
3. Sub-tropical Rambles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx: Personal Experiences by Nicolas Pike (1873)
"... to dig up Pinnae—Dolabella Rumphi Shells—Tropic Birds—The Mud Laffs— Terrible
Wounds inflicted by them—Sunset Visions—Return to the Trou Fanfaron. ..."
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