Crossword-Solution: DIG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dig | 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. |
| Dig | v. t. | To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold. |
| Dig | 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. |
| Dig | v. t. | To thrust; to poke. |
| Dig | v. i. | To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. |
| Dig | v. i. | To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. |
| Dig | v. i. | To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. |
| Dig | n. | A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4. |
| Dig | v. t. | A plodding and laborious student. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIG | anagram | GID, IGD |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DIG (5)
One September afternoon Alexandra had gone over to the garden across the draw to dig sweet potatoes—they had been thriving upon the weather that was fatal to everything else.
The Miser and His Gold Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains.
Why should he toil and moil, and be at so much trouble to pick himself up out of the mud, when, in a little while hence, the strong arm of his Uncle will raise and support him? Why should he work for his living here, or go to dig gold in California, when he is so soon to be made happy, at monthly intervals, with a little pile of glittering coin out of his Uncle’s pocket? It is sadly curious to observe how slight a taste of office suffices to infect a poor fellow with this singular disease.
When Thea dragged him over the hill and made a camp under the shade of a bush or a bank, he would waddle about and play with his blocks, or bury his monkey in the sand and dig him up again.
And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again; "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!" Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler.
Quotes with DIG (3)
One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
A friend is someone who knows where all your bodies are buried. Because they're the ones who helped you put them there." And sometimes, if you're really lucky, they help you dig them back up.
Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 406 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).