Thesaurus: dig

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1. v. t. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
2. v. t. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3. v. t. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
4. v. t. To thrust; to poke.
5. v. i. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
6. v. i. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
7. v. i. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
8. n. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
9. v. t. A plodding and laborious student.
10. n. the site of an archeological exploration
11. n. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
12. n. a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)