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verb

ˈdig How to pronounce dig (audio)
Definition of dignext
1
as in to excavate
to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth a backhoe dug a hole in the backyard to make a swimming pool

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2
as in to enjoy
to take pleasure in I really dig bluegrass music

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3
as in to know
to have a clear idea of can you dig what I'm saying?

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4
as in to poke
to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object every time I slowed down, he'd dig me in the ribs

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dig

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noun

1
as in jab
a quick thrust gave him a dig in the ribs with my elbow

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2
as in insult
an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings got in a couple of digs about lawyers at my friend's expense

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3
as in apartment
digs plural a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place check out my new digs on the north side of town

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Recent Examples of dig
Verb
Northlight Theatre inaugurates its swank Evanston digs with The Front Page, set in a Chicago newsroom and starring real-life spouses Kate Fry and Timothy Edward Kane. — Web Behrens, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 Its North Star technology analyzes financial, technical, and risk data for individual stocks and returns a straightforward buy, sell, hold, or avoid recommendation, eliminating the need to manually dig through earnings reports. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026
Noun
Senior setter Ryler Bondad, who had 454 assists, 203 digs, is one of nine players back. — Bobby Narang, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026 Raul Holguin, who owns Papi’s, is giving his business its first permanent digs around mid-October. — Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dig
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dig
  1. excavate
  2. enjoy
  3. know
  4. poke
  5. jab
  6. insult
  7. apartment
  8. shovel
Verb
  • Once the house is resting on I-beams, Craig and his crew excavate some more, to put hydraulic jacks under the beams.
    — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
  • An international team of roughly 60 researchers from 13 countries was excavating the site when the amulet was discovered.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of excavate
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  • Her teachers enjoyed her drawings and left her alone to make them.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time, the collaboration enjoys enormous gains on two other lists.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of enjoy
Verb
  • Arroyo and Weiss didn’t know that Link, a Vernon Hills Democrat, was cooperating with the FBI.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • But the two men also know some individuals can delay the inevitable for years far beyond the norm.
    — Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of know
Verb
  • Adults’s Gen-Z characters tend to see their comforts as transient, their identities as mutable, and seriousness as an annoying obligation, all of which the second season pokes at a bit.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Most of what’s actionable comes from the signal that might be poking through.
    — Ben Gretch, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of poke
Noun
  • Mayer had some early success with her jab, but Cameron increasingly took control as the fight progressed and landed the cleaner punches before hurting Mayer with a right hand in the eighth round.
    — Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • In 2025, a Kentucky man was killed after he was hit 27 times with a GLOVE by jail employees, on top of 13 jabs from a taser, which ultimately sent him into cardiac arrest.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of jab
Noun
  • To call them journalists would be an insult to the profession.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The exchange began when Pham criticized Myers over a play, leading to a heated back-and-forth online, with Pham eventually resorting to personal insults.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of insult
Noun
  • The three later bought groceries, returned to the apartment and cooked green enchiladas while drinking alcohol, according to the affidavit.
    — Madison Lambert, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Police are investigating a shooting at an east Fort Worth apartment complex that injured one man on Friday night.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of apartment
Verb
  • After all, that is a quite a load – Lacy also caught 29 passes – and some of it could be shoveled off to Michigan State transfer Makhi Frazier.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier this month, bulldozers were videoed uprooting trees and shoveling dirt as wild animals trotted by.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
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“Dig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dig. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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