v
(rare, transitive) To eradicate; to pull up by the roots.
adv
(obsolete) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
v
(obsolete, rare, transitive) To fill up with alluvial earth.
v
(transitive, rare) To root up.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
v
(transitive) To take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.
n
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
v
(literally) To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
v
(literally) To begin excavating and levelling earth for a new building, or, originally, for cultivation.
v
(obsolete, New England) To remove snow from a road or sidewalk.
n
(Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
v
(intransitive) to dig a tunnel or hole
n
(informal) Clipping of clearomizer [The reservoir and atomizer of an e-cigarette.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
v
(transitive) To remove the tail from.
v
(transitive, Oxbridge and Southern England, slang, dated) To pull down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent, as a prank.
v
(transitive, agriculture) To remove the haulm or stem from.
n
(Northern England, slang) An act of pulling down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To dig; to excavate.
v
(slang, transitive) To remove the trousers from (someone), often by force or surprise as a prank.
v
To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
v
To dig out and remove from a trench.
v
(transitive) To remove something by digging.
v
(transitive) to excavate something
v
(veterinary) To remove horn-buds from a young calf, lamb or goat kid, to prevent growth of horns.
v
(rare) To remove shoes or other footwear.
v
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
v
(transitive) To dig ditches around.
v
(Usually with up) to unearth.
v
(figuratively) To find by diligent search, especially from unsavory sources.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To use something after a long time without it.
n
(archaic) A digging out or up.
v
(archaic) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
v
(construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
v
(transitive) To pull up by the roots; to uproot.
v
(transitive) To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
v
(transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
v
(transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
v
(transitive) To selectively remove part of something.
v
(idiomatic) To search for by rummaging, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container).
v
(mining) To leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster.
v
(intransitive, especially of an animal, chiefly Canada, US) To escape into a burrow, hole, etc. when being hunted.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
v
(dated) To pull (something) up by the roots; to uproot.
v
(intransitive, colloquial) To do the vacuuming
v
To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
v
(transitive) To root up.
n
A point or channel of drainage or off-flow; offlet.
v
(transitive) To eradicate; to extirpate.
v
(transitive) To separate and recover (valuable minerals) by swirling dirt or crushed rock in a pan of water, in the manner of a traditional prospector seeking gold.
v
To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
v
(transitive) To invest a resource (money, material, energy) into something.
v
To persevere with an activity of consuming something, both literally and figuratively.
v
To uncover or unearth (something) through plowing.
v
(intransitive) To dig for quahogs.
v
To clean by removing material with a rake.
v
To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To fix; root.
v
(intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
v
(figuratively) To rummage; to look for something in a somewhat aimless fashion.
v
To dig or pull up by the roots; to deracinate.
v
(transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
v
(transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
v
(transitive) to remove something by shoveling or digging.
v
(US, archaeology) To excavate, to do archaeology digs.
v
(euphemistic) To change into clothes that are suitable to be stripped off by a lover.
v
(transitive) To remove by using a sponge.
n
The bark from the stem of a woody plant.
v
To extirpate; to dig up.
v
(transitive) To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.
v
(transitive) To remove (a part from a machine).
n
The act of one who strips.
v
(transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
v
(transitive) To turn up the subsoil of.
v
To remove a piece of something from the whole; separate out.
v
(transitive, dated) To remove the surface or bed of a road.
v
(transitive) To make sparse; to remove some of a group of newly-planted plants in order to allow the remaining ones to grow unimpeded
v
(literally) To extract or remove by threshing.
v
(transitive) To remove the top and bottom of (an item), for example when preparing carrots for cooking.
v
(transitive) To remove the topsoil from.
v
(transitive and intransitive) To dry (oneself or another person or thing) completely, using a towel.
v
(engineering) To pull the drill stem and bit out of the hole of an oil well drill, in order to access the borehole.
v
(transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
v
(transitive) To force from a burrow; to unearth.
v
To dig up, to remove from the ground.
n
(military) A substitute for dress parade in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
v
To drive or draw from the earth.
v
(transitive) To dig up and remove (something planted).
v
(transitive) To tear up by the roots; to uproot.
v
(transitive) To remove the thatch from.
adj
(of a plant) Uprooted.
v
(transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
v
(transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
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