dig up

verb

dug up; digging up; digs up

transitive verb

: find, unearth

Synonyms

• ascertain
• descry
• detect
• determine
• dig out
• discover
• dredge (up)
• ferret (out)
• find
• find out
• get
• hit (on or upon)
• hunt (down or up)
• learn
• locate
• nose out
• root (out)
• rout (out)
• rummage
• run down
• scare up
• scout (up)
• track (down)
• turn up

Examples of dig up in a Sentence

she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks

Recent Examples on the Web

Kazakhstan, Damba, June 24, 2024 - Excavators are digging up the mouth of the Ural, where the river flows into the Caspian. —Photovogue, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024

Leaf, meanwhile, is still focused on digging up election fraud from four years ago but appears to have moved beyond Michigan. —Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024

Large machines dug up the rocky waste and pulverized it into powder and gravel. —Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024

Gein confessed to killing two women in the 1950s and was accused of killing several more as well as digging up corpses and making keepsakes out of human body parts, with his crimes serving as the inspiration for Hollywood horror movies like Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. —Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 15 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above