Definition of dig

"dig" in the noun sense

1. dig, excavation, archeological site

the site of an archeological exploration

"they set up camp next to the dig"

2. shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe

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"

"she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

3. dig

a small gouge (as in the cover of a book

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

4. excavation, digging, dig

the act of digging

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

5. dig, jab

the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow

"she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"

"dig" in the verb sense

1. dig, delve, cut into, turn over

turn up, loosen, or remove earth

"Dig we must"

"turn over the soil for aeration"

2. dig, dig out

create by digging

"dig a hole"

"dig out a channel"

3. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil

work hard

"She was digging away at her math homework"

"Lexicographers drudge all day long"

4. dig, dig up, dig out

remove, harvest, or recover by digging

"dig salt"

"dig coal"

5. dig

thrust down or into

"dig the oars into the water"

"dig your foot into the floor"

6. excavate, dig, hollow

remove the inner part or the core of

"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

7. jab, prod, stab, poke, dig

poke or thrust abruptly

"he jabbed his finger into her ribs"

8. grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend

get the meaning of something

"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

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Quotations for dig

Foxes dig not their own holes. [ Proverb ]

You dig your grave with your teeth. [ Proverb ]

All that are black, dig not for coals. [ Proverb ]

Can gold calm passion or make reason shine?
Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune, than our happiness. [ Young ]

Bloody and deceitful men dig their own graves. [ Proverb ]

He's a proud fox that will not dig his own hole. [ Proverb ]

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. [ Tupper ]

Covetous men are condemned to dig in the mines for they know not who. [ Proverb ]

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

dig in Scrabble®

The word dig is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters dig:

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dig in Words With Friends™

The word dig is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters dig:

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Words within the letters of dig

2 letter words in dig (1 word)

3 letter words in dig (1 word)

dig + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence dig

Words with dig in them (158 words)

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Words that end with dig (2 words)

Word Growth involving dig

Shorter words in dig

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Longer words containing dig

bedight bedighted

bedight bedighting

bedight bedights

cardigan cardigans

condign condignities

condign condignity

condign condignly

condign condignness

digalactoside

digametic

digastric digastrics

digest autodigest autodigested

digest autodigest autodigesting

digest autodigest autodigestion autodigestions

digest autodigest autodigestive autodigestively

digest autodigest autodigestor autodigestors

digest autodigest autodigests

digest digested autodigested

digest digested indigested

digest digested maldigested

digest digested nondigested

digest digested redigested predigested

digest digested undigested

digest digester digesters vermidigesters

digest digester vermidigester vermidigesters

digest digestibilities

digest digestibility indigestibility

digest digestible indigestible indigestibleness

digest digestible indigestible indigestibles

digest digestible nondigestible

digest digestible undigestible

digest digesting autodigesting

digest digesting maldigesting

digest digesting redigesting predigesting

digest digestion autodigestion autodigestions

digest digestion digestional

digest digestion digestions autodigestions

digest digestion digestions indigestions

digest digestion digestions predigestions

digest digestion indigestion indigestions

digest digestion redigestion predigestion predigestions

digest digestive autodigestive autodigestively

digest digestive digestively autodigestively

digest digestive digestives

digest digestive nondigestive

digest digestor autodigestor autodigestors

digest digestor digestors autodigestors

digest digests autodigests

digest digests maldigests

digest digests redigests predigests

digest maldigest maldigested

digest maldigest maldigesting

digest maldigest maldigests

digest redigest predigest predigested

digest redigest predigest predigesting

digest redigest predigest predigestion predigestions

digest redigest predigest predigests

digest redigest redigested predigested

digest redigest redigesting predigesting

digest redigest redigestion predigestion predigestions

digest redigest redigests predigests

digest undigestable

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digged

digger diggers ditchdiggers

digger diggers gravediggers

digger ditchdigger ditchdiggers

digger gravedigger gravediggers

digging diggings

digging ditchdigging

digicam digicams

diginite diginites

digit digital atriodigital

digit digital digitaliform

digit digital digitalin digitalins

digit digital digitalis digitalisation digitalisations

digit digital digitalis digitalise digitalised

digit digital digitalis digitalise digitalises

digit digital digitalis digitalising

digit digital digitalis digitalism

digit digital digitalization digitalizations

digit digital digitalize digitalized

digit digital digitalize digitalizes

digit digital digitalizing

digit digital digitally

digit digital digitals

digit digital nondigital

digit digital oculodentodigital

digit digital predigital

digit digitate digitated interdigitated

digit digitate digitately

digit digitate interdigitate interdigitated

digit digitation digitations

digit digitation interdigitation

digit digitation prestidigitation

digit digitiform digitiforms

digit digitigrade

digit digitisation digitisations

digit digitise digitised

digit digitise digitiser digitisers

digit digitise digitises

digit digitising

digit digitization digitizations

digit digitize digitized nondigitized

digit digitize digitizer digitizers

digit digitize digitizes

digit digitizing

digit digitoxin digitoxins

digit digits

digit faciodigitogenital

digit interdigitating

digit nondigitizable

digit prestidigitator prestidigitators

diglucoside

diglyceride diglycerides

diglyph diglyphic

diglyph diglyphs

dignification dignifications

dignified dignifiedly undignifiedly

dignified dignifiedness

dignified indignified

dignified overdignified

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dignified underdignified

dignified undignified undignifiedly

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dignitarian dignitarians

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digoxin

digram digrams

digraph digraphic digraphically

digraph digraphs multidigraphs

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digress digressive digressively

digress digressive digressiveness

digress digressory

digs shindigs

digyny

indigence

indigenisation

indigenise indigenised

indigenise indigenises

indigenising

indigenization

indigenize indigenized

indigenize indigenizes

indigenizing

indigenous indigenously

indigent indigently

indigent indigents

indignance indignances

indignancies

indignancy

indignant indignantly

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indignatory

indigo indigometer indigometers

indigo indigometry

indigo indigos windigos

indigo windigo windigos

medigap

mendigo mendigos

paradigm paradigmatic

paradigm paradigms

pedigree pedigreed unpedigreed

pedigree pedigrees

prodigal prodigalise prodigalised

prodigal prodigalise prodigalises

prodigal prodigalising

prodigal prodigalities

prodigal prodigality

prodigal prodigalize prodigalized

prodigal prodigalize prodigalizes

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shindig shindigs

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