undig

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ dig

Verb

undig (third-person singular simple present undigs, present participle undigging, simple past and past participle undug)

  1. (transitive) To undo the process of digging; to fill up (a hole or grave) or bury again (something unearthed).
    • Mary Russell Mitford
      Tom Cordery dead! the words seem almost a contradiction. One is tempted to send for the sexton and the undertaker, to undig the grave, to force open the coffin-lid — there must he some mistake.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
      [] let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug []

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