to dig holes in an area of land
to find information by searching carefully
to remove something from under the ground by digging
They dug up a body in his garden.
They’ve been digging up the road outside our house.
We will have to dig that tree up.
When we investigated his background, we dug up some interesting facts.
digs up
digging up
dug up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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