Dig Synonyms & Definitions

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• DigDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
2. (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.
3. (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.
4. (v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
5. (v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
6. (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
7. (n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
8. (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
9. (v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
10. (n.) = Gouge.
11. (v. i.) To work hard or drudge;
12. (n.) A tool for digging.
13. (v. i.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
14. (n.) An amount to be dug.
15. (v. i.) To study ploddingly and laboriously.
16. (n.) An act of digging.

• DigamousDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

• DigammatedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /.