dig
/dɪɡ/ verb C2- To understand. · You dig?
- To appreciate, or like. · Baby, I dig you.
He/she/it digs · Past dug · Past participle dug · -ing form digging
Verb forms
- Base form
- dig
- He/she/it
- digs
- Past
- dug
- Past participle
- dug
- -ing form
- digging
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- dig around To thoroughly search every part of an area or a container...
- dig down To scrounge for money, especially large amounts of it.
- dig in To begin eating.
- dig into To research a particular subject.
- dig on To be attracted to (someone).
- dig out To remove something by digging.
- dig over To dig thoroughly through an area so as to loosen the soi...
- dig up To excavate something.
From the library
The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and make them produce finer grapes.
To dig the sandy shore.
'Tis he that inhabits the caves that you dig;
“Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man’s cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
Other matches
- dig An archeological or paleontological investigati... A1
- dig To move hard-packed earth out of the way, espec... B1
- dig Digoxin. C2
- dig around To thoroughly search every part of an area or a...
- dig down To scrounge for money, especially large amounts...
- dig in To begin eating.
- dig into To research a particular subject.
- dig on To be attracted to
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