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[ verb ] find by digging in the ground

Synonyms

turn_up excavate

Examples

"I dug up an old box in the garden"

Used in print

(Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)

Burial had taken_place at night in the ground at the public crossroads under the gibbet , so that his enemies could not find his body and have it dug_up and burned .

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