Synonyms for dig out
dig out

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1. dig, dig up, dig outverb

   remove, harvest, or recover by digging

   "dig salt"; "dig coal"

   Synonyms:
   stab, savvy, dig up, cut into, prod, grind, travail, turn over, jab, delve, hollow, labour, compass, comprehend, poke, apprehend, get the picture, turn up, grok, toil, excavate, labor, grasp, moil, dig, drudge

2. dig outverb

   dig out from underneath earth or snow

   Synonyms:
   dig, dig up

3. dig, dig outverb

   create by digging

   "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel"

   Synonyms:
   stab, savvy, dig up, cut into, prod, grind, travail, turn over, jab, delve, hollow, labour, compass, comprehend, poke, apprehend, get the picture, grok, toil, excavate, labor, grasp, moil, dig, drudge

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1. • Excavate
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   • Hollow

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1. Vasdev Rai Pratap:

   I didn't know how dangerous the work in the mines is. Had I known, I would never have let him go, they said it took almost a day to dig out his body after the mine collapsed. They cremated him without telling me. I didn't even see my boy before they set him alight.

2. Steve Kerr:

   There’s more games coming, so we’ve got to do this ourselves. We got to dig out of the mud, and nobody’s going to help us.

3. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh:

   Saturday storm creates a sense of urgency. We're taking extra steps to make sure Boston and people can dig out on Sunday.

4. Ilya Bobrovskiy:

   I took a helicopter to reach this very remote part of the world -- home to bears and mosquitoes -- where I could find Dickinsonia fossils with organic matter still intact, i had to hang over the edge of a cliff on ropes and dig out huge blocks of sandstone, throw them down, wash the sandstone and repeat this process until I found the fossils I was after.

5. Worker Nguyen Van Tuan:

   Dirt, rocks and mud tumbled in ... we came back to dig out our trapped colleagues but dirt and rocks kept falling as we dug, so we had to get help.