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Definition of Digging up
1. Noun. The act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried.
Generic synonyms: Act, Deed, Human Action, Human Activity
Derivative terms: Disinter, Exhume
Definition of Digging up
1. Verb. (present participle of dig up) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digging Up
Literary usage of Digging up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
""What need had they of digging up Zenobia in order to put soul into a landscape ?"
He gave up the task and played truant with more seriousness than before, ..."
2. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by William Gardiner Hammond (1876)
"... the finder took it all ; but no one was allowed to make the search for treasures
an excuse for digging up tombs and sacred places, or for digging up ..."
3. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"The General spent half a day with his servants in digging up Bones &c. & brought
about four hundred pounds weight from Muskingham & Kentucky as far as ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings by Joseph Chitty (1819)
"... 68 for keeping a bawdy house, 68 for digging up and taking away a dead body,
68 for unnatural crimes and practices inciting thereto, several forms, 68, ..."
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