Definition of dug
- past tense and past participle of dig
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The government has argued that his strict jail conditions are appropriate for someone who escaped from prison twice in Mexico, including once through a tunnel dug to the shower in his cell.
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The government has argued that his strict jail conditions are appropriate for someone who escaped from prison twice in Mexico, including once through a tunnel dug to the shower in his cell.
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The government has argued that his strict jail conditions are appropriate for someone who escaped from prison twice in Mexico, including once through a tunnel dug to the shower in his cell.
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Join Kauai Backcountry Adventures for a float through ditches and tunnels hand-dug more than a century ago by workers on the former Lihue sugar plantation.
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A 2014 report that accompanied a proposal to dredge the river at Sutton recommended at least six dikes with a channel dug to supply rock for the dredge and move water away from the bank for construction.
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He and his family gathered around that pirogue and dug in to perfectly cooked, tender shrimp.
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Realizing her two cats were hungry, the 8-year-old dug up some spare change and set off by herself to the local store around the corner.
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Trump’s firing last week of FBI Director James Comey will serve as quite an inflection point for the city the president leaves behind as Democrats are more dug in than ever and Republicans are running for cover.
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Origin and Etymology of dug
perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Swedish dæggia to suckle; akin to Old English delu nipple — more at feminine
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