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dug up

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And in Italy, the 16th-century body of an old woman was dug up in 2006 with a brick in her mouth.

Stephen Colbert dug up the clip and had a laugh, sprinkling on some fun with puns to seal the deal.

You know, he dug up 32-year-old mug shots of me that I had never even seen before, that had never been posted.

After the war ended, the Army dug up both sets of remains, finding they wore German clothing.

Before long, Rust and Marty had dug up the contractor's name— Childress and Son.

The Elizabethan pipes were so small that now when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them 'fairy pipes' from their tininess.

Several tons of leaden pipe were dug up in Fleet street, London, laid down 300 years before.

I was getting up some dandelion roots for my wife this morning early, and dug up this close to one.

He has gone to get her authority to have the corpse dug up again and put somewhere else.

Mr. W. is now having the dirt floor of his smoke-house dug up and boiling from it the salt that has dripped into it for years.

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On this page you'll find 595 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dig up, such as: raise, secure, solicit, acquire, muster, and requisition.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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