The removal of earth from its natural position.\ (Source: HARRIS)
Synonyms
Examples for "dig"
Examples for "dig"
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Rob didn't know what to expect at the dig, following the 'accident'.
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For example, we'll need to dig into this whole Kahverengi International matter.
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Here it is; you may follow us while we dig it out:
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Some of the survivors were compelled to dig graves for the seven.
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I dig down looking for things that existed a long time ago.'
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Good luck digging to find the notifications you really wanted to read.
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Ne-Yo: I'm digging everything that's going on right now at Cash Money.
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Next step: Thinking of the future instead of digging up the past.
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He rowed strongly if not particularly well, digging deep into the water.
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Its first money-making activities were the movie industry & digging oil wells.
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Here was a battery with earthworks; there, a fort; beyond, a signal-staff.
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We kept the earthworks and trenches of the front on our right.
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Now the ramparts and earthworks are overrun and almost hidden by roses.
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The messenger would have to run the gauntlet of the enemy's earthworks.
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Several had been posted behind some earthworks thrown up by the enemy.
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This is not a standard archeological site.
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Museum director Maxwell Anderson discovered evidence that the piece might have been stolen from an archeological site and contacted Turkish officials.
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Kit Howden, chair of local conservation group Friends of Maungawhau, said Mount Eden was a world-class archeological site which was being damaged by cars.
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Mr Brown says despite the months that have now passed he is no closer to getting answers over the disturbance of the archeological site.
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At that time, the key to an archeological site lay in its stratigraphy-thelayering of artifacts with such things as bone, charcoal, and sediments.
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Year after year, I witness the excavation of the new mass graves.
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The amount of material found was significant, given the relatively shallow excavation.
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An excavation of graves that she no longer had any responsibility for.
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The manger where the animals fed is an excavation in the rock.
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It was unearthed during excavation work at the Tafuna site last week.
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Breitner was evidently worried about the safety of such a serious excavation.
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Three months of intensive excavation followed, during which Phipps lost 15 pounds.
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Fred let her get ahead and paused to target the excavation equipment.
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The difference in ease of excavation is due to the following circumstance.
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Schliemann resolved to put his convictions to the test of actual excavation.
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All the excavation we did last year has been undone by driftsand.
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It indicated that his parents died before him, the excavation leader said.
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There would be time for a quick visit to the excavation first.
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As in the first cave, excavation would be very difficult and expensive.
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In truth, we were imprisoned-boundas it were, in a vast excavation.
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The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task.
