dig

dig is a 3-letter English word with 22 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
2. transitive verb. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
3. transitive verb. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
4. transitive verb. To thrust; to poke.
5. intransitive verb. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
6. intransitive verb. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
7. intransitive verb. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
8. noun. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
9. transitive verb. A plodding and laborious student.
10. noun. the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

    "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"

    Synonyms: jab

11. noun. the act of digging

    "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

    Synonyms: digging, excavation

12. noun. a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)

    "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover"

13. noun. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

    "his parting shot was `drop dead'"

    "she threw shafts of sarcasm"

    Synonyms: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam

14. noun. the site of an archeological exploration

    "they set up camp next to the dig"

    Synonyms: excavation

15. verb. get the meaning of something

    "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

    Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, grasp, grok, savvy

16. verb. poke or thrust abruptly

    "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"

    Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab

17. verb. turn up, loosen, or remove earth

    "Dig we must"

    "turn over the soil for aeration"

    Synonyms: delve

18. verb. remove the inner part or the core of

    "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

    Synonyms: excavate, hollow

19. verb. create by digging

    "dig a hole"

    "dig out a channel"

20. verb. thrust down or into

    "dig the oars into the water"

    "dig your foot into the floor"

21. verb. remove, harvest, or recover by digging

    "dig salt"

    "dig coal"

22. verb. work hard

    "She was digging away at her math homework"

    "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

    Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail

Synonyms

jab, digging, excavation, barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam, apprehend, compass, comprehend, grasp, grok, savvy, poke, prod, stab, delve, excavate, hollow, drudge, fag, grind

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dig:

gid, igd

Common word forms

digs, digest, digged, digger, digging

Words from these letters

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