outdig

English

Etymology

out- +‎ dig

Verb

outdig (third-person singular simple present outdigs, present participle outdigging, simple past and past participle outdug)

1. To dig better or faster than another.
   • 2019 September 27, Greg Jones, “Andrew Yang’s UBI: A Universally Bad Idea”, in The American Spectator‎^[1]:

     A more American version exists in the legend of John Henry, the “steel-driving man” who dropped dead attempting to prove that he could outdig a machine.

Anagrams

• dig out