dig up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
find by digging in the ground
I dug up an old box in the garden
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- excavation derivation
- excavation derivation
- dig derivation
- locate verb group
Sense 2 verb
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
dig salt
Types & categories
- excavate hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excavation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dig |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | locate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | obtain |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | grub up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nuzzle |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | disinter |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | excavate |