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Dig out

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove something by digging. transitive

    "The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger."

  2. 2
    create by digging wordnet
  3. 3
    To find or retrieve something buried. figuratively, sometimes, transitive

    "I shall try to dig out my old textbooks."

  4. 4
    dig out from underneath earth or snow wordnet
  5. 5
    To make something by digging. transitive

    "We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire."

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  1. 6
    remove, harvest, or recover by digging wordnet
  2. 7
    To decamp; to leave a place hastily. US, intransitive, slang
  3. 8
    To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone. slang, transitive

    "I'd like to dig her out."

  4. 9
    To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second. transitive

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