DIG OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dig out mean? 

• DIG OUT (verb)
  The verb DIG OUT has 3 senses:

1. remove, harvest, or recover by digging

2. dig out from underneath earth or snow

3. create by digging

  Familiarity information: DIG OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIG OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove, harvest, or recover by digging

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

dig; dig out; dig up

Context example:

dig coal

Hypernyms (to "dig out" is one way to...):

excavate; unearth (recover through digging)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dig out from underneath earth or snow

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "dig out" is one way to...):

disengage; free (free or remove obstruction from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Create by digging

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

dig; dig out

Context example:

dig out a channel

Hypernyms (to "dig out" is one way to...):

core out; hollow; hollow out (remove the interior of)

"Dig out" entails doing...:

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dig out"):

lift (take (root crops) out of the ground)

trench (dig a trench or trenches)

dibble (make a hole with a wooden hand tool)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something