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Dig out   /dɪg aʊt/   Listen
Dig out

verb
1.
Remove, harvest, or recover by digging.  Synonyms: dig, dig up.  "Dig coal"
2.
Dig out from underneath earth or snow.
3.
Create by digging.  Synonym: dig.  "Dig out a channel"





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"Dig out" Quotes from Famous Books



... to come to her assistance. They thought the haste she exhibited was undignified, and smiled compassionately upon her. There was no hurry— there never is in Africa. If she would but wait all would be well. When argument failed, they went off and left her to cut down the bush and dig out the roots herself. Lounging about in the village they commiserated a Mother who was so strongheaded and wilful, and consoled themselves with the thought of the work they would do when once they began. She could make no progress, ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... always in the wrong key. There is no use in making up an ideal of any class; but if you must have one, let it be of an extinct class. It does not much harm to construct horrible plesiosaurians from the petrified scales we dig out of a coal-mine or chalk-pit; but when it comes to idealizing the sea-serpent, who winters at the Cape Verds and summers at Nahant, it is a serious matter. For the love of Agassiz, give ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various
... called the Pentagon again and asked to talk with some of the Project officers. As I expected, I was turned down. The only alternative was to dig out the story by talking with pilots and others who had been. quizzed by Project teams. I had several leads, and True had ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe
... Ku-wa. It has cost much time and trouble to dig out the meaning of this word. The fundamental notion is that contained in its two parts, ku, to stand, and wa, an interval or space, the whole meaning to arrange or ...
— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson
... for a while. Men will come with shovels to dig out the train. We can soon see what has happened, for the auto road ...
— The Curlytops and Their Playmates - or Jolly Times Through the Holidays • Howard R. Garis


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