Dig Up

Definition: Dig Up

Dig Up

Verb

1. Find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Dig Up

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: Dig Up

Where did you dig up that old fossil? (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Dig up the past, all you get is dirty. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

Dig up that corpse! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It'll take me at least a week to dig up all my dolls in the cemetery. (Meet Me in St. Louis; writing credit: Sally Benson; Irving Brecher)

Dig Up (1923)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Where to Dig Up Antiques (reference)

• Dig Up Bones: Psychiatry (reference)

• Dig Up My Heart (reference)

• Dig Up My Heart: Selected Poems 1952-83 (reference)

• Dig Up Your Roots and Find Your Branches: A Child's Guide to Genealogy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dig up": dig up the tomahawk ♦ to dig up. Additional references.

Albanian

derdh një këst, marr paratë (cash), gjej (ascertain, assure, be, be present, catch, come across, discover, distil, distill, divine, fetch, figure out, find, find out, get, guess, hit, hunt down, hunt out, hunt up, look out, meet with, obtain, pick out, procure, root out, scare up, search out, trace), gërmoj (break ground, cave, dig, dig out, excavate, grub, hollow out, Mold, mole, mould, pick, poke about, rout). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نزع (disarmament, evisceration, extraction, plucking out, removal, remove, slough, snap, spring, strip, supplant, take down, take off, tear out), ‏نبش (dig into, dig out, disinterment, exhume, grub, make a hole in, rake, resurrect, revelation, scratch up, snoop, snooping, unearthing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разкопавам (break fresh ground, break ground, excavate, grub, pickax), откривам (bare, descry, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, espy, expose, find, find out, inaugurate, initiate, lay bare, lay open, lead off, locate, open, pick out, pry out, recover, reopen, reveal, rout out, rout up, run down, spot, strike, unclose, uncover, unearth, unveil), откопавам (exhume), изравям (dig out, disinter, exhume, hunt out, rake out, rake up, resurrect, root out, root up, scrape out, scratch out, scratch up, unearth), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, endow, gave, give, give in, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references)

Chinese 

�' (climb, cling to, crawl, hold on to, pull, push aside, rake, snatch, to strip). (various references)

Czech

zrýt, vykopat (dig out, excavate, lift), vyhrabat (dig out, drag up, grub up, hunt out, rake out, unearth), splašit (scare up, stampede), sebrat (compile, gather up, nab, pick up, pouch, raise, rally, scoop up, take in, take up), rozkopat, přerýt. (various references)

Dutch

delven (excavate, grub), winnen (earn, excavate, gain, grub, win), uitgraven (excavate, grub), rooien (aim, dig, excavate, grub, intend, lift, pull up), opgraven (dig, excavate, grub, lift, pull up), opduikelen (excavate, grub). (various references)

Esperanto

elterigi (dig, lift, pull up), elfosi (excavate, grub). (various references)

French

déterrer (dig, dig out, din into, disinter), dégorger, fouiller (dig), arracher, abattre (discourage, dispatch, dispirit). (various references)

German

ausgraben (bring up, dig, dig out, excavate, lift, pull up, root up, to excavate, unearth). (various references)

Greek 

ξεθάβω (disinter, exhume, unearth). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחפור ול�"וציא. (various references)

Hungarian

kiás (dig out, excavate, hollow, to delve out, to delve up, to disinter, to dredge, to dredge up, to excavate, to grub, to grub up, to root out, to root up, to stub, to unearth), felhánytorgat (to rub in), felás (dug, grub, to dig, to grub, to trench). (various references)

Indonesian

mencangkul (cultivate ground), membangkit-bangkitkan, gali (delve, dig, unearth). (various references)

Italian

rivangare (delve). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掘�"す (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up), 掘り起す (to dig up, to reclaim), 掘り起�"す (to dig up), 掘り�"す (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up), 掘り�"てる (to dig up, to find, to strike), 暴き出す (to dig up and expose a criminal matter), � �散らす (to dig up messily), � �り�"す (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほりお�"す (to dig up, to reclaim), ほりかえす (to dig up, to tear up, to turn up), ほりあてる (to dig up, to find, to strike), ほりちらす (to dig up messily), あばき� す (to dig up and expose a criminal matter). (various references)

Manx

reuyrey (delve, dig, root, spade), astyrtal (dig out). (various references)

Maya

ha'adz (to dig up). (various references)

Pig Latin

igday upay

Portuguese

desenterrar (dig, disentomb, disinter, grub, hunt out, unearth), descobrir (ascertain, bare, bewray, denudate, denude, descry, detect, disclose, discover, elicit, espy, find, find out, get out, hunt out, hunt up, identify, lay open, lay up bare, open, pioneer, poke about, publicize, reveal, see, show up, spell out, strike, surprise, to discover, uncap, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unearth, unkennel, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Romanian

dezgropa (disentomb, disinter, excavate, exhume, resurrect, unearth), desţeleni (break up, fallow), scormoni (fan, ferret, Grout, poke up, rake, ransack, rout, rummage, scan, scrutinize, search, stir up), sãpa adânc (dig deep), excava (excavate, scoop). (various references)

Russian 

разрыть, вспахать, вырыть, откопать. (various references)

Scottish

spleadhan (a sort of wooden paddle to dig up sand eels). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raskopati, pronaći (discover, dog down, find, get a hold of, hunt out, invent, locate, seek, spot), otkopati (earth up, excavate), okopavati (hill), iskopati (dig out, drag up, dredge, excavate, grub, plant out, unearth), iščačkati (ferret out, rummage out). (various references)

Spanish

excavar (burrow, dig, dig out, excavate, grub, hollow, sink, tunnel, unearth). (various references)

Swedish

gräva upp (disentomb, disinter, excavate, exhume, grub, unearth). (various references)

Turkish

deşmek (dig, dig out, dredge up, exhume, incise, open up, probe, root), toprağı kazıp çıkarmak, toprağı belleyerek havalandırmak, meydana çıkarmak (bring to light, catch out, elicit, nail, reveal, show), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey). (various references)

Ukrainian

викопувати (delve, dig, dig out, excavate, grub up, rout out). (various references)

defossus. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: guid.

-2 letters: dig, dip, dug, dui, dup, gid, gip, pig, piu, pud, pug.

-3 letters: id, pi, up.

+1 letter: duping, upgird.

+2 letters: dumping, dupping, giddyup, pagurid, pinguid, pudding, pudgier, pudgily, upgirds.

+3 letters: deputing, dumpings, dumpling, groupoid, impugned, pagurids, pounding, puddings, puddling, pudgiest, pygidium, spudding, updating, updiving, updrying, upending, upgirded.

+4 letters: decupling, depluming, disputing, dumplings, duplexing, epilogued, groupoids, guidepost, guildship, judgeship, perduring, preluding, producing, puddlings, pudginess, undraping, upbinding, updarting, upfolding, upgirding, upgrading, upholding, uplighted, uploading, uprighted, upsending.