Antonyms for digging
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dig |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪg |
Definition of digging
Origin :- late 17c. as "a tool for digging," from dig (v.). Meaning "archaeological expedition" is from 1896. Meaning "thrust or poke" (as with an elbow) is from 1819; figurative sense of this is from 1840.
- verb delve into; hollow out
- verb thrust object into
- verb investigate; discover
- verb enjoy, like
- verb understand
- Got plenty of water by digging a few holes in the springy places.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- I could not succeed in finding the plant for which they had been digging.
- Extract from : « The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California » by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
- He, Saunders, the despair of the girls for thirty years, had fallen into a pit of his own digging!
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- We worked in gangs of six, digging and passing up the dirt into the night-tubs.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- I knew a boy who was digging a cave in a sandy place, and he found an Indian grave.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- More than a hundred men were digging on the top of this hill.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- In the afternoon he returned with his pard and tools for digging.
- Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
- Just a chance I couldn't afford to pass up, of digging into Peppajee.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- He threw them away, and went on digging as coolly as if he had been gardening.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- Their child Antonin was sitting on the ground, digging a hole with his little hands.
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for digging
- accept
- appreciate
- apprehend
- bore
- break up
- bring to light
- bulldoze
- burrow
- cat
- catch
- channel
- clean
- come across
- come up with
- comprehend
- concave
- deepen
- delve
- depress
- dig down
- discover
- dredge
- drill
- drive
- enter
- excavate
- exhume
- expose
- extricate
- find
- follow
- fork out
- go for
- go into
- gouge
- grasp
- groove
- grub
- harvest
- hoe
- inquire
- investigate
- jab
- jog
- look into
- love
- mind
- mine
- nudge
- penetrate
- pierce
- pit
- plunge
- poke
- probe
- prod
- produce
- prospect
- punch
- quarry
- ram
- recognize
- relish
- research
- retrieve
- root
- root out
- rout
- sap
- scoop
- scoop out
- search
- search high and low
- see
- shake down
- shovel
- sift
- sink
- spade
- stab
- stick
- take
- take in
- till
- tunnel
- turn inside out
- turn over
- turn upside down
- uncover
- undermine
- understand
- unearth
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