dig up
phrasal verbdig something up
- to break the ground into small pieces before planting seeds, building something, etc.
- They are digging up the football field to lay a new surface.
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- to remove something from the ground by digging
- An old Roman vase was dug up here last month.
- to discover information about somebody/something synonym unearth
- Tabloid newspapers love to dig up scandal.