transitive to dig up.

To obtain or extract by excavation; to exhume, unearth; = to dig out or to dig up at phrasal verbs. Const. from, out of.

transitive. To take or get out of the ground, etc., by digging or excavating; to exhume, disinter, unearth. Also figurative to obtain, find…

transitive. To take out, thrust out, extract or remove by excavation. (Cf. 6) figurative to obtain, get hold of, or get out by search or effort.

transitive. To dig out of the earth, to exhume; to disclose by the removal of earth.

transitive. To hollow out by digging; to excavate; to dig out or up. With various spec. local senses: see quots.

transitive. To root up or extract from underground, to dig up; to burrow or grub in (the ground). Also, with object complement: to transform by…

transitive. To scrape or prise (something) up or out with a fork, hoe, or other implement.

= effodiate, v.

transitive. Usually with up. To uproot, to dig or grub up. Also: to dig out, unearth (an otter).

To dig out (of the ground), dig up.

To dig up, to dig. Obsolete.

transitive. To dig out in a rough manner.

transitive. To dig out of the earth.

To get out by digging.

transitive and intransitive. To dig.

transitive. To extinguish (a cigarette) by pressing the lighted end of the stub against a hard object. Frequently with out. Also figurative.