unearth
paw
indelve
effodient
grub out
holk
grub up
ditch
entrenched
delve
dig in
dig up
dyke
excavate
turn up
scoop
burrow
inditch
tunnel
dawk
dig out
grub
rootle
dib
lockspit
engird
grobble
excursive
redig
root
entrench
cut about
hoe
unbury
hole up
stock up
excavation
exhumation
nuzzle
dig
digging
scrabbly
digger
hole
misdig
unplant
spit
mine
nosy
sink
ferk
rake
muck
incave
suffossion
spuddle
ditcher
rout
nestlingly
bore
ditchdigger
shovel
scratch
groin
umbecast
gain on
inwander
infall
spelder
trench
underroot
fodient
Irish banjo
scuppet
piggle
nest
pitting
retrench
cave in
rootch
cavern
bedaggle
cut
fossorial
betangle
begrime
effodient
entrenched
excursive
scrabbly
fodient
fossorial
nestlingly
excavation
exhumation
dig
digging
digger
suffossion
ditcher
ditchdigger
Irish banjo
scuppet
pitting
cave in
unearth
paw
indelve
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holk
grub up
ditch
delve
dig in
dig up
dyke
excavate
turn up
scoop
burrow
inditch
tunnel
dawk
dig out
grub
rootle
dib
lockspit
engird
grobble
redig
root
entrench
cut about
hoe
unbury
hole up
stock up
nuzzle
dig
hole
misdig
unplant
spit
mine
nosy
sink
ferk
rake
muck
incave
spuddle
rout
bore
shovel
scratch
groin
umbecast
gain on
inwander
infall
spelder
trench
underroot
piggle
nest
retrench
rootch
cavern
bedaggle
cut
betangle
begrime
adj
verb
verb
verb
- To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- To scour a watercourse.
- To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
noun
- An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
- A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- A raised causeway.
- Any small body of water.
- Any fence or hedge.
- Any navigable watercourse.
- A beaver's dam.
- Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- A non-heterosexual woman.
- Any watercourse.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- A jetty; a pier.
- A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
verb
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To pick (someone) up
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
noun
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- The raised end of a surfboard.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The peak of a cap.
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
verb
verb
- To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To turn up or dig with the snout.
- Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- To root out; to abolish.
- To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
noun
- The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- A sexual partner.
- The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- A zero (of an equation).
- The primary source; origin.
- The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- A root vegetable.
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- A penis, especially the base of a penis.
verb
- To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
verb
noun
adj
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Scribbly.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- Stunted.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
verb
- To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- To go into a hole.
- To make holes in (an object or surface).
- To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- To destroy.
noun
- An undesirable place to live or visit.
- A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- An excavation pit or trench.
- A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- A container or receptacle.
- Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- Sex, or a sex partner.
- A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- A chordless cycle in a graph.
- A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
verb
- To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
- To dig, to spade.
- To utter (something) violently.
- To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
- To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
- To rap, to utter.
- To plant (something) using a spade.
- (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.
- To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
- To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
- To rain or snow slightly.
noun
- An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- Synonym of slam (“card game”)
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see spitting image).
- A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
- Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
verb
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- To pick one's nose.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
pron
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- Used predicatively.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun.
noun
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
verb
- To make by digging or delving.
- To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- To push (something) into something.
- To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- To pay absolutely.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
noun
- An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
- A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- Descending motion; descent.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- A sinkhole.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A heat sink.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- The motion of a sinker pitch.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
verb
verb
- To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- To snore, especially loudly.
- To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
noun
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- A group of disorganized things.
adv
verb
- To make a hole through something.
- simple past tense of bear
- To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- To inspire boredom in somebody.
- simple past tense of bare
noun
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- The place where such a well exists.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
verb
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
verb
verb
noun
- The act or process of falling in.
- Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma
- The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
- An incursion; an inroad.
noun
noun
verb
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To build or settle into a nest.
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- To settle into a home.
noun
- An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A fortified position for a weapon.
verb
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- make an incision or separation
- discharge from a group
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- make out and issue
- cut and assemble the components of
- intentionally fail to attend
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- give the appearance or impression of
- move (one's fist)
- pass directly and often in haste
- pass through or across
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- stop filming
- make a recording of
- record a performance on (a medium)
- create by duplicating data
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- perform or carry out
- function as a cutting instrument
- allow incision or separation
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- reap or harvest
- fell by sawing; hew
- penetrate injuriously
- refuse to acknowledge
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- have a reducing effect
- cease, stop
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- have grow through the gums
- grow through the gums
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
adj
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
adj
- with parts removed
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- mixed with water
noun
- a share of the profits
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- a step on some scale
- a wound made by cutting
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
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