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dig up

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Verb1.dig updig up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
excavate, turn up
grub out, grub up - dig up; "grub up roots and tree stumps"
nuzzle - dig out with the snout; "the pig nuzzled the truffle"
obtain - come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?"
locate, turn up - discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining; "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest?"; "My search turned up nothing"
disinter, exhume - dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
2.dig up - remove, harvest, or recover by digging; "dig salt"; "dig coal"
dig out, dig
excavate, unearth - recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold"
Translations
? dig up
vt sep
earth → aufwühlen; lawn, garden → umgraben
plants, treasure, body, idea → ausgraben; weeds → (aus)jäten; (fig) fact, information → ausgraben, auftun; solution → finden; where did you dig her up? (inf) → wo hast du die denn aufgegabelt? (inf)


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By either a happy inspiration or some destructive design, it was one day proposed--nobody appeared to know from whom the suggestion came- -to dig up the vine, and after a good deal of debate this was done.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
On the third day we marched again, hoping that we might live to return to dig up our buried ivory, and in due course, after a long and wearisome tramp, and many adventures which I have not space to detail, we reached Sitanda's Kraal, near the Lukanga River, the real starting-point of our expedition.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
I'd give it all to you, the pirate gold and every bit of treasure we could dig up.
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