"dig up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-dig up.ogg Forms: digs up [present, singular, third-person], digging up [participle, present], dug up [participle, past], dug up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|dig<,,dug> up}} dig up (third-person singular simple present digs up, present participle digging up, simple past and past participle dug up)
  1. (transitive) to excavate something Tags: transitive Translations (to excavate): ἀνορύσσω (anorússō) (Ancient Greek), vytěžit [perfective] (Czech), těžit [imperfective] (Czech), dobývat [imperfective] (Czech), kaivaa (Finnish), déplanter (French), ausgraben (German), 𐌿𐍆𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (ufgraban) (Gothic), disseppellire (Italian), dissotterrare (Italian), effodiō (Latin), houhou (Maori), huke (Maori), allay (Quechua), dezgropa (Romanian), displanter (english: plants) (Walloon), -mba (Zulu)
    Sense id: en-dig_up-en-verb-T0CyeCYf Disambiguation of 'to excavate': 88 5 7
  2. (transitive, idiomatic) to discover something by digging; to unearth Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to discover by digging): vykopat [perfective] (Czech), dobýt [perfective] (Czech), dobývat [imperfective] (Czech), kaivaa esiin (Finnish), dénicher (French), dégoter [colloquial] (French), mettre la main (French), huke (Maori), откопа́ть (otkopátʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-dig_up-en-verb-ChPt7yMm Disambiguation of 'to discover by digging': 2 86 12
  3. (transitive) To find a supply of (something); to pay up. Tags: transitive
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Inflected forms

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          "english": "plants",
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to discover by digging",
      "word": "huke"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otkopátʹ",
      "sense": "to discover by digging",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "откопа́ть"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dig up"
}

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  "path": [
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "dig up",
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}

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