noun
- An udder or breast or teat.
verb
- Turn up, loosen, or remove earth.
- usage: "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"
- Create by digging.
- usage: "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel"
- Work hard.
- usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- Remove, harvest, or recover by digging.
- usage: "dig salt"; "dig coal"
- Thrust down or into.
- usage: "dig the oars into the water"; "dig your foot into the floor"
- synonyms: dig
- Remove the inner part or the core of.
- usage: "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
- Poke or thrust abruptly.
- usage: "he jabbed his finger into her ribs"
- Get the meaning of something.
- usage: "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter"
- synonyms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
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