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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig a passage through |
| Synonyms: | burrow, excavate, mine, penetrate, sap, scoop out, undermine |
| Main Entry: | burrow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig a hole |
| Synonyms: | delve, excavate, hollow out, scoop out, tunnel, undermine |
| Antonyms: | cover, fill |
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delve into; hollow out |
| Synonyms: | bore, break up, bulldoze, burrow, cat, channel, clean, concave, deepen, depress, dig down, discover, dredge, drill, drive, enter, excavate, exhume, fork out, go into, gouge, grub, harvest, hoe, investigate, mine, penetrate, pierce, pit, probe, produce, quarry, root, root out, rout, sap, scoop, scoop out, search, shovel, sift, spade, till, tunnel, turn over, uncover, undermine, unearth |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | excavate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig up |
| Synonyms: | burrow, cut, delve, empty, gouge, grub, hollow, mine, quarry, scoop, scrape, shovel, spade, trench, tunnel, uncover, unearth |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | gouge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, scoop |
| Synonyms: | burrow, claw, dig, dredge, excavate, gash, groove, scrape, scratch, shovel, tunnel |
| Main Entry: | undermine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, blunt, clip one's wings, corrode, cripple, debilitate, dig, dig out, disable, eat away, enfeeble, erode, excavate, foil, frustrate, hollow out, hurt, impair, knock the bottom out of, mine, poke full of holes, ruin, sabotage, sandbag, sap, soften, subvert, threaten, thwart, torpedo, tunnel, undercut, wear, whittle away, wreck |
| Antonyms: | strengthen |
| Main Entry: | undercut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excavate |
| Synonyms: | burrow, cut, gouge, hollow, tunnel, undermine |
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