Synonyms for Digging
dig·ging

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1. excavation, digging, dignoun

   the act of digging

   "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

   Synonyms:
   barb, dig, excavation, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, digging, jibe, gibe, mining

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1. diggingnoun

   Synonyms:
   excavation, exhumation (digging up)

   Associated words:
   fossorial, fodient

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "digging":

   dig, excavation, drilling, dug, burrowing, excavating, delving, hafr

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How to use Digging in a sentence?

1. Jan Groen:

   I don't think he understands the working class in general, he hasn't made any efforts to talk to us, he just keeps digging deeper into powers… I don't think he understands people.

2. Paul Ryan:

   I think Chairman Gowdy's initial assessment's accurate, I think, but we have some more digging to do. We're waiting for some more document requests, it would have been helpful if we got this information earlier.

3. David Siik:

   I was really concerned that people weren't really understanding that there are consequences for sprinting on too big of an incline all the time, so after a lot of research and really digging into what happens to the body on an incline, we created the 5 percent incline guideline-- we don’t do any maximum sprinting over a 5 percent incline so that you aren’t putting too much pressure on your lower back. We just recalculated the work load so it feels better.

4. Klaus Kristiansen:

   At first we were digging up a lot of dirt with metal fragments in it. Then we suddenly came across bones and pieces of clothes, it was like opening a book from yesterday.

5. The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock:

   Rayshard Brooks talks about how hard it is to come back, to recover when you return. Rayshard Brooks was trying. Rayshard Brooks had been digging Rayshard Brooks way back. And Rayshard Brooks knew that night that Rayshard Brooks could very well lose Rayshard Brooks liberty, afraid of losing Rayshard Brooks liberty, Rayshard Brooks lost Rayshard Brooks life, running from a system that too often makes slaves out of people.