Dictionary Entry
To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
In a Sentence
“If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.”
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Poetry examples for “dug”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →She felt his strong desire. ‘“Cochon, no. Go away
from me.” She dug him sharply in the side with her
elbow.
Read full poem →And as he spoke his hand went up,
In a grave dug deep and wide,
Read full poem →"Not that I know of. It is called the Dell.
They have not dug chalk here for a century.
That was the ash-trees' age. But I will ask."
Read full poem →The Combe looks since they killed the badger there,
Dug him out and gave him to the hounds,
That most ancient Briton of English beasts.
Read full poem →The will to see with it. If you did so,
There might be fewer ditches dug for others
In your perspective; and there might be fewer
Read full poem →protected during his lifetime by John of Gaunt; but, forty years after
his death, his bones were dug up and burned for heresy. His followers
were called Lollards, and were persecuted with great severity in the
Read full poem →And in the withered hollow of this land
Hath Summer dug herself so deep a grave,
That hardly can the leaden willow crave
Read full poem →"You can't because you don't know how.
If you had any feelings, you that dug
With your own hand—-how could you?—-his little
Read full poem →"You can't because you don't know how.
If you had any feelings, you that dug
With your own hand--how could you?--his little grave;