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1. Find by digging in the ground
   "I dug up an old box in the garden";
   - excavate, turn up
    
2. Remove, harvest, or recover by digging
   "dig up salt";
   - dig, dig out
    
3. Recover through digging
   - excavate, unearth
    
4. Find, discover or bring to light after significant investigation or search
   - unearth

Derived forms: digging up, digs up, dug up

Type of: bring out, locate, obtain, reveal, turn up, unveil