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  1. transitive verb To break up, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example), as with a shovel, spade, or snout, or with claws, paws or hands.
  2. transitive verb To make or form by removing earth or other material: dig a trench; dug my way out of the snow.
  3. transitive verb To prepare (soil) by loosening or cultivating.
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  • An open face also lets the flange on the bottom of the club slide more easily along the ground instead of dig, which is critical for controlling backspin.
  • As is so typical of the Post, and of the MSM in general, this little bit of bigotry was a throwaway, a gratuitous dig -- a dig, of course, that reveals much about The Post's underlying mentality. —  Latest Articles
  • One of the genres in Internet virals I dig is the artsy scene. —  TheNextWeb.com
  • It is able to dig, and so it burrows down into the earth, when it is not too hard, and scoops itself a nest. —  Chatterbox, 1905.
  • I think Sampson stammered a little on "dig-dig" just for the fun. —  Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
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excavation ·  jab ·  knock ·  push ·  shake ·  shove ·  kick ·  skirmish ·  poke ·  nudge ·  slap ·  tug

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dig:   dug ·  digging ·  digs
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  1. Middle English diggen; perhaps akin to Old French digue, dike, trench; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots. V., tr., sense 8 and intr., sense 3, perhaps influenced by Wolof degg, to hear, find out, understand, or Irish Gaelic tuigim, I understand.

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  1. from Middle English diggen), dyggen (once deggen, for a rime) (preterit diggede, digged, past participle digged), prob. altered (through Danish influence?) from earlier dikien, usually diken or assibilated dichen, dig, from Anglo-Saxon dīcian, make a ditch (= Danish dige, raise a dike, = Swedish dika, ditch, dig ditches), from dīc, a ditch, etc.: see dike, ditch, v. and n. The preterit dug, for earlier digged, like stuck for sticked, is modern.
  2. from dig, v.
 

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