dig up

verb

dug up; digging up; digs up
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transitive verb

: unearth
digging up potatoes
dug up some new information

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Examples of dig up in a Sentence

she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks
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Her team has dug up living anthrax samples that may have been dormant for 80 years in previous research. — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026 Construction on the pipeline could mean members of the community must make the decision between digging up their ancestors to preserve their graves or having the graves destroyed in the construction. — Madeline Luebkert, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026 To date, contractors have dug up and replaced nearly 14,000 yards, mostly in a 27-square-mile area on the city’s east side, which has been declared a federal Superfund site. — Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2026 By comparison, digging up and repaving a road requires 12 to 14 workers and covers only about a mile a day. — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dig up

Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dig up was in 1611

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