dig up

Questions about dig up

What does dig up mean?

dig up means "find by digging in the ground". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dig up?

Close synonyms include excavate, turn up, dig, dig out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dig up a common word?

dig up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.