Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To thrust; to poke.
- 5intransitive verb
To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
- 6intransitive verb
To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- 7intransitive verb
To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- 8noun
A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig. t., 4.
- 9transitive verb
A plodding and laborious student.
- 10noun
the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
"she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"
Synonyms
- 11noun
the act of digging
"there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"
Synonyms
- 12noun
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
"the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover"
- 13noun
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"
- 14noun
the site of an archeological exploration
"they set up camp next to the dig"
Synonyms
- 15verb
get the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
- 16verb
poke or thrust abruptly
"he jabbed his finger into her ribs"
- 17verb
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
"Dig we must"
"turn over the soil for aeration"
Synonyms
- 18verb
remove the inner part or the core of
"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
- 19verb
create by digging
"dig a hole"
"dig out a channel"
- 20verb
thrust down or into
"dig the oars into the water"
"dig your foot into the floor"
- 21verb
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
"dig salt"
"dig coal"
- 22verb
work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"
"Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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