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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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