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dug

verb as in thrust object into

verb as in enjoy, like

verb as in understand

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Archaeological evidence suggests that survivors wrapped the small body tightly before laying it, curled on one side with the tiny head resting on a pillow, in a carefully dug pit in Panga ya Saidi cave.

The petroleum industry has depicted fracking as a few antiseptic drills dug on peaceful farmland.

For years, William Schmidt single-handedly dug a tunnel through a mountain to transport his gold-rush loot.

Occasionally someone climbed over it or crashed through it or dug under it, or made himself a glider and flew through it.

And in Italy, the 16th-century body of an old woman was dug up in 2006 with a brick in her mouth.

Following a storm of criticism, Franck dug in on the comparison in two further posts.

Things looked anxious for a bit, but by this morning's dawn all are dug in, cool, confident.

The Elizabethan pipes were so small that now when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them 'fairy pipes' from their tininess.

But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?

Several tons of leaden pipe were dug up in Fleet street, London, laid down 300 years before.

And, as the spring was some little distance from there, they dug a well in the Fort, and found the water very good.

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On this page you'll find 142 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dug, such as: unearth, search, shovel, drill, dredge, and go into.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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