| VERB | contact | cut into, dig, delve, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth |
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| Meaning | Turn up, loosen, or remove earth. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | dig, delve, turn over | |
| Entailed by | hoe | dig with a hoe |
| mine | Get from the earth by excavation | |
| plow, plough, turn | To break and turn over earth especially with a plow | |
| quarry | extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry | |
| Narrower | burrow, tunnel | Move through by or as by digging |
| furrow, rut, groove | hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | |
| rout, root, rootle | dig with the snout | |
| shovel | dig with or as if with a shovel | |
| spade | dig (up) with a spade | |
| trowel | Use a trowel on | |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| See also | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
| Spanish | cavar, excavar | |
| Catalan | cavar, excavar | |
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