Digging Up

  

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Digging Up

Definition: Digging Up

Digging Up

Noun

1. The act of digging up something (especially a corpse) that has been buried.

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


Synonyms: Digging Up

Synonyms: disinterment (n), exhumation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Digging Up

English words defined with "digging up": Charnel housedig up, disintermentEffodient, Effossion, excavate, exhumationRefossionTo turn up, turn up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "digging up": FARM-MACHINE OPERATOR, FARMWORKER, BULBS, FARMWORKER, MACHINEreconciliation, rotary excavatorSadler's Wellsturning upwave division multiplexing. (references)

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Modern Usage: Digging Up

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Lyrics

Digging up my soul (Elevation; performing artist: U2)

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

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Commercial Usage: Digging Up

DomainTitle

Books

  • Digging Up Texas: A Guide to the Archeology of the State (reference)

  • Digging Up Butch and Sundance (reference)

  • Digging Up Dinosaurs (Let's Read and Find Out Books) (reference)

  • The Fossil Factory: A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils (reference)

  • Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Image Slideshow: Digging Up

Computer Images:
Digging Up

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Photo Album: Digging Up

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Missoula, Montana. Digging up ground for backyard garden. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Digging Up

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Digging Up

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

digging up bones

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Digging Up

Language Translations for "digging up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

umgrabend. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iggingday upay

   

Romanian

  

dezgropare (digging out, disinterment, exhumation, resurrection). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sleabhag (mattock for digging up carrots), bleaghan (a dibble for digging up shell-fish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Digging Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-g-g-i-i-n-p-u"

-2 letters: digging, guiding, pigging, pinguid, pugging.

-3 letters: duping, pidgin, piggin.

-4 letters: piing.

-5 letters: ding, dung, guid, nidi, ping, pung.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Digging Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 67 67 69 6E 67      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01100111 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#103 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0067 0067 0069 006E 0067      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3875737375807325582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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