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digging up

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Noun1.digging updigging up - the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
disinterment, exhumation
human action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happen
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The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.
Fables by Aesop View in context
The absence of any cartridges made Sheldon persist in the digging up of the floor, and a fifty-pound flour tin was his reward.
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Some neighbors even affirm that they had once seen, through an air-hole, Archdeacon Claude excavating, turning over, digging up the earth in the two cellars, whose supports had been daubed with numberless couplets and hieroglyphics by Nicolas Flamel himself.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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