Synonyms for dig up
dig up

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1. excavate, dig up, turn upverb

   find by digging in the ground

   "I dug up an old box in the garden"

   Synonyms:
   dig, turn up, hollow, turn out, fold up, locate, fold, surface, excavate, come out, come on, show up, dig out, unearth, prove

2. dig, dig up, dig outverb

   remove, harvest, or recover by digging

   "dig salt"; "dig coal"

   Synonyms:
   stab, savvy, cut into, prod, grind, travail, turn over, jab, delve, hollow, labour, compass, comprehend, poke, apprehend, get the picture, turn up, grok, toil, excavate, labor, dig out, grasp, moil, dig, drudge

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1. • Excavate
   • Obtain

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1. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   I got Bush's campaign people out in my hometown, and I have a library out there, OK? I got a library out there. So they've been living in this library trying to dig up all this stuff against me.

2. Troy Littleton:

   These sort of ideas are built into the system, that it's very difficult to have a child and be a grad student, often create these sort of invisible barriers that we never even see, but they keep many women from entering STEM to begin with, having a policy where there's clear support laid out, that is not something you have to go dig up and find and fight for, that every student has access to, will be very helpful.

3. Ben McAdams:

   Before making any judgments, I want to know the facts of what occurred between the President and Ukraine, i share Sen. (Mitt) Romney's view that If the President used his position to pressure a foreign power to dig up dirt on a rival for his own personal gain, it would be deeply troubling. I believe it would be a betrayal of the loyalty owed to our country and the Constitution.

4. John Manly:

   We were already aware that MSU has hired private investigators to dig up dirt on Nassar’s victims and this is one more indication that John Engler and the MSU Board of Trustees continues to treat survivors as the enemy.

5. Wan Junaidi:

   Although there are 139 graves, we have not managed to dig up all of them, forensics have to do it carefully so the bodies and evidence are preserved. We don't know how many there are, and who they are.