Synonyms for digging up
dig·ging up

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1. exhumation, disinterment, digging upnoun

   the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried

   Synonyms:
   disinterment, exhumation

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1. Klaus Kristiansen:

   At first we were digging up a lot of dirt with metal fragments in it. Then we suddenly came across bones and pieces of clothes, it was like opening a book from yesterday.

2. Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza:

   There are huge biases in the fossil record due to a number of factors (mainly geographical and economical, but also more personal biases like palaeontologists focusing on looking for one species for example, like Tyrannosaurus), the fact that multiple groups of scientists working on the exact same question at the same time can come up with completely opposite results further enforces this, that there is a great need for further data collection, i.e. digging up more dinosaurs and finding out where they lived and how successful they truly were.

3. Rose Dickinson:

   The government's plans pervert the planning process and could make England's landscape a wild west for whatever cowboy wants to start drilling and digging up our countryside.

4. Reginald Haupt , Jr.:

   They would probably locate him where no one would ever suspect, and you don't go around digging up a golf course.

5. 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.