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  • adjective Not dug

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un- +‎ dug

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Examples

  • Twinn believes that hidden in the soil below is an extensive Roman ritual and domestic site, still largely unknown and undug, which is why the precise location of our walk must remain top secret.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • The harvest petered out, the woman never appeared, but the Bohemian farmers, as they had done since Alobar could remember, left a few acres of beets undug so that they might complete their cycle and provide the seed for next year's crop.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • I ask, the spot having been both undug and unprotected by signs for at least 30 years.

    Archive 2007-03-18 2007

  • He had never excavated another site, but as the ancient mound languished on the Konya Plain, undug and neglected, Mellaart had done everything he could to keep its memory—and his own reputation—alive.

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

  • And thus places that are dug open flow by that pressure, and afford the more water (as the breasts of women do milk by their being sucked), the vapor thus moistening and becoming fluid; whereas ground that remains idle and undug is not capable of producing any water, whilst it wants that motion which is the cause of liquefaction.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • He broiled two for his dinner, toasted another huge tuber and then undug his egg, arranging it in its carrying shell with plenty of warm sand.

    Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

  • He broiled two for his dinner, toasted another huge tuber and then undug his egg, arranging it in its carrying shell with plenty of warm sand.

    Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

  • She stood a long time bent over a potato hill, unable to see the spading fork, the undug potatoes forgotten.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • But there were no fresh stains on that wall this morning, and the graves remained undug, though here and there were seen the first marks of spades where the wretched victims had begun to dig.

    Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs Homer Randall

  • When the disease appeared, the people who held conacres threw them up, and the potatoes remained undug.

    The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

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