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To dig out of

Dig \Dig\ (d[i^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dug (d[u^]g) or Digged (d[i^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Digging. -- Digged is archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. [root]67.]

  1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.

    Be first to dig the ground.
    --Dryden.

  2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

  3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

  4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]

    You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

  5. To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam. To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out, To dig up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. To dig in,

    1. to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.

    2. To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.

      to dig in one's heels To offer stubborn resistance.

Usage examples of "to dig out of".

Goloswin had been almost impossible to find, and even harder to dig out of his comfortable rut on Doradan.

Flinging herself down atop her rumpled sheets, she lay fingering the silver bracelet, thoughts skittering from what she might manage to dig out of Moghedien today to whether Siuan would appear that afternoon, from Lan to her block to whether she was going to stay in Salidar.

The woman deserved to go to the headsman for the mire she had driven the Tower into, a mire Elaida now had to dig out of, much less for daring to blackmail the Amyrlin Seat.

Starlab was quite different, and all the engineering specs he'd been able to dig out of the databank didn't make it real for him.

The irritating thing about hidden words was that they were hidden, and difficult to dig out of whatever cave or ciphered manuscript or reluctant, stubborn mind she found them in.

If you have taken the dream-box and opened it, well, that is bad enough a hole for us to dig out of.

You're welcome to all the treasure you care to dig out of the bat guano.