digging
/ˈdɪɡɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of 'dig' — breaking up or moving earth.
- The dog is digging a hole in the backyard.
- She is digging for clams at the beach.
- They are digging a trench for the water pipe.
- Figuratively, searching or investigating thoroughly.
- The reporter is digging into the politician's past.
- He is digging through old records to find the answer.
- She is always digging for the truth, no matter how hard it is.
noun
- The act of breaking up and moving earth or other material with a tool, hands, or machine.
- The digging for the new building started last week.
- After hours of digging, they finally found the buried treasure.
- Digging in the garden is hard work but good exercise.
- A place where digging is being done, such as an archaeological excavation.
- We visited an old digging where miners once searched for gold.
- The archaeologists are working at a Roman digging in the valley.
- The digging site was marked with yellow tape.
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