digging up
Excavating from below
Digging up means unearthing—removing something from the ground by digging: They're digging up the old pipes.
The phrase extends to uncovering hidden or forgotten information: She dug up some interesting facts about the company's history.
To dig up dirt on someone is to find damaging information about them.
- disinterUnbury the dead
- exhumeUnbury the dead
- unearthExcavate or reveal hidden
- buried treasureValuables interred for safekeeping
- excavateRemove earth systematically
extract · dredge up · the past · uncover · sleuthing · reveal · root out · archaeology · muckraking · family secrets · skeleton in the closet · artifact · scoop · evidence · shovel · relic · trowel · buried
- retrievalfetch, fetching, retrieving, recovering, reclaiming
digging upburying
Covering with earth
filling in · covering up · backfilling · interring · entombing
digging upburying
Covering with earth
covering up · concealing · suppressing · hiding · hushing up
digging upburying
Covering with earth
interring · entombing · reburying · laying to rest · reinterring
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