| 单词 | dig up |
| 释义 | dig up 1. phrasal verb B2 If you dig up something, you remove it from the ground where it has been buried or planted. You would have to dig up the plant yourself. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Dig it up once the foliage has died down. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you dig up an area of land, you dig holes in it. Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb If you dig up information or facts, you discover something that has not previously been widely known. Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information. [VERB PARTICLE noun] His description fits perfectly the evidence dug up by Clyde. [VERB-ed PARTICLE] 4. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for dig If you dig up something or someone, you find them and use or employ them. [informal] When something happens anywhere in the world, we dig up an expert from someplace or other. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] If you dug up an old medical book from the sixties, it would tell you that childhood leukemia is incurable. |
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