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/dɪg ɪn/ Listen

verb

Dig v. t. (past & past part. dug, digged is archaic; pres. part. digging)

1.

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. "Be first to dig the ground."

2.

To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

3.

To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

4.

To thrust; to poke. (Colloq.) "You should have seen children... dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls."

5.

To like; enjoy; admire. "The whole class digs Pearl Jam." (Colloq.)

To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.

To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out, To dig up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.

To dig in,

(a)

to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.

(b)

To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; used of warfare or negotiating situations.

to dig in one's heels To offer stubborn resistance.

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Etymology of 'Dig in'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dig in" Quotes from Famous Books

... spoke the mole, as she began to stop up the hole Sammie had made. She really did very well for a blind animal, but then she had been blind so long that she did not know what daylight looked like. "You had better dig in some other place," the mole concluded, as she finished ...

— Sammie and Susie Littletail • Howard R. Garis

... Britain which were not more justifiable, because they exceeded the bounds of a just retaliation and were chargeable with inhumanity and cruelty. Many of the English who were taken on the Spanish coast were sent to dig in the mines of Potosi; and by the usual progress of a spirit of resentment, the innocent were, after a while, confounded with the guilty in indiscriminate punishment. The complaints of the merchants kindled a violent flame throughout the nation, which soon after broke out in the House ...

— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

... were not content to give up the idea of making us their servants. I happened to be on the next list prepared. This time the task was to dig in Captain Alexander's garden, which we would have been obliged to perform with an armed guard standing ...

— Daring and Suffering: - A History of the Great Railroad Adventure • William Pittenger

... tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge. "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester

... billboard. Kent had submerged his grief in work; the eternal drive of the true scientist to drag the truth out of Mother Nature. He was constitutionally incapable of sabotaging the very instruments that had been built to dig in ...

— Psichopath • Gordon Randall Garrett

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