DIGS UP Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

digs up

verb

present tense third-person singular of dig up

as in finds

to come upon after searching, study, or effort she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks

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Recent Examples of digs up What begins as a journey for father and son to spread the ashes of their wife and mother, Faye, quickly turns into a fantastical adventure the tests their relationship and digs up ghosts from Kratos' past. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026 By chance, Bogdan digs up a gravesite that has bones laid on top of it—bones belonging to Peter Mercer. — Barry Levitt, Time, 28 Aug. 2025 There's also a third body involved when contractor Bodgan digs up a bonus set of bones in the cemetery, providing a potential motive for the Ventham killing and creating a third mystery to solve in the process. — EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025 When Gomez was arrested for murder at Nevermore’s Parents’ Weekend, Wednesday gets on the case and digs up the dead body of the boy her dad supposedly killed, Garrett Gates. — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2025

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Rosignoli also recommended the Museo Civico Naturalistico-Archeologico in Vicenza, which has finds from Lake Fimon and Teatro Berga, an actual Roman theater that once stood in the city center.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Luanne, a beauty-school dropout, finds her voice as a Christian children’s puppeteer.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of finds

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That specificity has raised alarms because military personnel, intelligence officials, and contractors have privileged knowledge capable of shifting the value of a contract before the public learns it.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2026
Each market requires its own evidence and reimbursement pathway—a reality every company scaling medical technology globally learns quickly.

— Erez Meltzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of learns

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If most people tend to think of the art as the visual or sonic manifestation one encounters, Protocol Art locates the art not in its manifestations but in the work that generates them.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The medical model locates disability inside the individual, a deficit to be cured, corrected or endured until the person can function in a world built without them.

— Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of locates

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As Connecticut digs out after a historic Nor’easter dumped over two feet of snow across parts of the state this week, the question municipalities are tasked with now is where to put it.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2026
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters As the East Coast digs out from a massive snowstorm, a potential nor'easter could bring more snow to the region this weekend.

— Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2026