Read full poem →Fling me into the ocean or I perish.
Dig, d\f^, dig, dig, until the springs fly up.
The coQ, cold sprinzs, thatl may leap into them.
Dictionary Entry
To break up and move earth using a tool or hands; to excavate or uncover something buried.
In a Sentence
“Archaeologists carefully dig into the ancient ruins to uncover historical artifacts.”
This entry also appears in ReadingWillow Foundation word lists, so students can move between the dictionary and year-level study sets.
Origin
From Old English 'dich' (ditch), related to Proto-Germanic *dīkōną.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “dig”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers
To touch the covered corpse of him that fled
Read full poem →The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,—
And Death must dig the level where these agree.
Read full poem →way of getting water. One of them proposed that they
should dig a well.
Read full poem →A difference with Morris might have arisen, of course, over the now
long-discussed question of vers libre, but who are we to dig up that
Babylon? The schoolboys' papers of Toulouse had learnt all about it
Read full poem →And here, till hers, which must be his death, come,
He doth not dig a grave, but build a tomb.
Here dwells he, though he sojourn ev'ry where,
Read full poem →He found a badger hole and bolted in.
They tried to dig, but, safe from danger's way,
He lived to chase the hounds another day.
Read full poem →And here, till hers, which must be his death, come,
He doth not dig a grave, but build a tomb.
Here dwells he, though he sojourn ev'ry where,
Read full poem →Then with her knife, all sudden, she began
To dig more fervently than misers can.
Read full poem →With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat