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. 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.

3. Herman Cain:

   You better believe that the people who hate me, who do not like conservatism, Republicans, are already digging up all of the negative stuff that's in stories from eight years ago, so be it. Let them go back and dig up eight-year-old stuff. I will be able to explain it this time where they wouldn't let me explain it the last time.

4. Bill Gassett:

   I’ve had sellers with specific requests to take certain things that might have been a special gift, otherwise, you can’t just dig up a plant and take it with you; it’s part of the property.

5. Elissa Slotkin:

   The issue that got to me was this idea that the President, the most powerful man in the world, reached out to a foreigner, a foreign leader, and asked him to dig up dirt on an American.