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dig out

verb

  1. to remove
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To remove something by digging.

    The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.

    Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug himself out of the hole he had been buried in.

  2. To find or retrieve something buried.

    I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.

    'I thought it better to bring her down by car, sir,' explained Annesley in an aside of moody resignation. 'I only dug her out at something past eleven last night, and all the trains are at sixes and sevens just now.'

  3. To make something by digging.

    We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire.

  4. To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
  5. To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.

    I'd like to dig her out.

  6. To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
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