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Synonyms for dig up
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Princeton's WordNet
excavate, dig up, turn up(verb)
find by digging in the ground
"I dug up an old box in the garden"
Synonyms:
dig, turn up, hollow, turn out, fold up, locate, fold, surface, excavate, come out, come on, show up, dig out, unearth, provedig, dig up, dig out(verb)
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
"dig salt"; "dig coal"
Synonyms:
stab, savvy, cut into, prod, grind, travail, turn over, jab, delve, hollow, labour, compass, comprehend, poke, apprehend, get the picture, turn up, grok, toil, excavate, labor, dig out, grasp, moil, dig, drudge
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#1653 | surface | |
#2137 | labor | |
#3526 | labour | |
#4340 | prove | |
#4911 | locate | |
#6423 | fold | |
#7788 | dig | |
#9566 | hollow | |
#10647 | compass | |
#12576 | prod | |
#13142 | grasp | |
#13468 | savvy | |
#15427 | grind | |
#19711 | stab | |
#20854 | poke | |
#21181 | comprehend | |
#25036 | drudge | |
#29951 | travail | |
#31630 | jab | |
#34141 | delve | |
#35150 | toil | |
#43012 | unearth | |
#53441 | apprehend | |
#64307 | grok | |
#76481 | excavate | |
#239454 | moil |
How to use dig up in a sentence?
We had a major American political party hire a foreign national, Christopher Steele, to dig up dirt on an American presidential candidate, as if that was not bad enough, the foreign national compiled an unverified dossier that was then used by The FBI to obtain a warrant against an American citizen and surveil an American presidential campaign.
I got Bush's campaign people out in my hometown, and I have a library out there, OK? I got a library out there. So they've been living in this library trying to dig up all this stuff against me.
It's an ongoing race that cities all over the country are constantly needing to dig up and replace and fix that infrastructure.
We were already aware that MSU has hired private investigators to dig up dirt on Nassar’s victims and this is one more indication that John Engler and the MSU Board of Trustees continues to treat survivors as the enemy.
I think I'll probably vote for Bernie. Him as a human being, when I was hanging out with him, I believe in him, I like him, I like him a lot, what Bernie stands for is a guy -- look, you could dig up dirt on every single human being that's ever existed if you catch them in their worst moment and you magnify those moments and you cut out everything else and you only display those worst moments. That said, you can't find very many with Bernie. He's been insanely consistent his entire life. He's basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.
Translations for dig up
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- kaivaa, [[kaivaa]] [[esiin]]Finnish
- disseppellire, dissotterrareItalian
- desenterrarPortuguese
- откопатьRussian
- mbaZulu
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