dig up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

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
2. (transitive, idiomatic) to discover something by digging; to unearth

Translations

to excavate

• Czech: vytěžit pf, těžit (cs) impf, dobývat impf
• Finnish: kaivaa (fi)
• French: déplanter (fr)
• German: ausgraben (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (ufgraban)
• Italian: disseppellire (it), dissotterrare (it)
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• Latin: effodiō
• Maori: houhou, huke
• Quechua: allay
• Romanian: dezgropa (ro)
• Walloon: displanter (wa) (plants)
• Zulu: -mba

to discover by digging

• Czech: vykopat (cs) pf, dobýt (cs) pf, dobývat impf
• Finnish: kaivaa esiin
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• Maori: huke
• Russian: откопа́ть (ru) pf (otkopátʹ)

• French: ^{(please verify)} déterrer (fr), (1) ^{(please verify)} exhumer (fr), ^{(please verify)} dénicher (fr), (2) ^{(please verify)} mettre à jour (fr) piocher, ^{(please verify)} déraciner (fr)
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