dig out

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Verb	1.	dig out - remove, harvest, or recover by digging; "dig salt"; "dig coal" dig up, dig excavate, unearth - recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
	2.	dig out - dig out from underneath earth or snow disengage, free - free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor"
	3.	dig out - create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel" dig core out, hollow out, hollow - remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" lift - take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes" trench - dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench" dibble - make a hole with a wooden hand tool; "dibble the ground"

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vt sep (lit, fig) → ausgraben (of aus)

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The child had no playmates, so he did not know that boys often dig out the inside of a "pumpkin-jack," and in the space thus made put a lighted candle to render the face more startling; but he conceived an idea of his own that promised to be quite as effective.

The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

Brace said he couldn't read it very good, but he could manage to dig out the meaning most of the time.

Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context

" Zeb called to them, "you must dig out and race until you reach those three trees you see over yonder.

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

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