Synonyms of dug up

dug up

verb

past tense of dig up

as in found

to come upon after searching, study, or effort

she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks

Synonyms & Similar Words

• found
• learned
• discovered
• located
• dug out
• got
• found out
• hit (on or upon)
• turned up
• dredged (up)
• hunted (down or up)
• detected
• determined
• ran down
• ascertained
• tracked (down)
• rooted (out)
• routed (out)
• scouted (up)
• rummaged
• scared up
• nosed out
• ferreted (out)
• descried
• spotted
• searched (for or out)
• sighted
• sought
• looked for
• espied

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• passed over
• missed
• overlooked
• lost
• misplaced
• mislaid
• misset

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dug up

Dulay grew up in Sacramento and was a child when police dug up bodies at Puente’s boarding home. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Butler recently dug up the letter, which has since been framed at her home back in Denison. — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Underestimating the Labor Involved While smaller trees can be dug up by hand, manually removing a stump becomes progressively harder the larger the tree. — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2026

Authorities determined Pacheco was soliciting bribes and dug up $62,000 buried in his backyard in a search early in the case, marking the beginning of a sprawling corruption scandal that has spread through several communities. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

The dead from Srebrenica were bulldozed into mass graves over four days in July 1995, some of them dug up and relocated to remote mountains so as to hide evidence of the killings. — Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

Participants dug up the first pair of underpants and associated tea bags after 30 days and the second after 60 days, documenting the condition of the items and mailing all the materials to the scientists for analysis. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

After blooming is done and the warmest days of the year are behind us, certain plants can be dug up, separated into smaller clumps, and replanted with minimal stress. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 21 Aug. 2026

They were not fished out of a sewage outflow or dug up from a soil sample, which is where such things normally come from. — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2026