Digging

Synonyms for "digging" (52 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Noun(9 words)

excavation appreciate archeology burrowing delve delving digdig updiscover

deepening depression

Strong matches (15)

Noun(9 words)

enjoy excavate excavatingexcavation siteexcavations grubbing hole likemining site

fishing indentation lowering mining nosy

Adjective(1 words)

fossorial

Related words (26)

on the lookout forpoking probing prying research searching sinking

Noun(18 words)

pit quarry rummaging scooping scrabbling shoveling shovelling spadefoot spadework spading trench trenching tunneling unburying uncover undermining unearthunearthing of fossils

Verb(1 words)

unearth artifacts

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

16 entries

cavitycreating by removaldescriptive adjectiveearth moving workenjoymentexcavation sitegeological siteinvestigation openingparticiple adjectivephysical actionphysical activitypositive preferenceresearch space verb

More specific

18 entries

admire burrowingcoal diggingsditchditch diggingexcavatinggarden digginggold diggingslead diggingspitpost holepost hole diggingprefer trench tunnel tunneling

Showing 16 of 18 words.

Collocations

12 entries

archaeological digdig sitedigging activitydigging implementdigging plandigging sitedigging tooldigging toolsearthmoving projectgarden diggingsoil excavationyard digging

Inflections

3 entries

diggings digs dug

Derivations

3 entries

diggability diggable digger

Translations

2 translations across 1 languages.

Spanish

2 entries

cava noun (Translations)
cavío noun (Translations)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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You are always digging at me about my clothes.

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The dog was digging a hole.

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One man was seen digging with his bare hands.

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After we finish digging the trench, planting the flowers will be easy.

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