DUG UP Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

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

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Recent Examples of dug up 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 Her team has dug up living anthrax samples that may have been dormant for 80 years in previous research. — Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 5 Aug. 2026

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Contour Circuits, founded by Secor and former graduate student Jeremy Rurup, received a $150,000 Small Business Technology Transfer contract to advance the technology.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
At Micam, curation takes place in sections like the Emerging Designer event area, founded in 2018.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026

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Today, that room looks across UC Davis experimental fields — and toward the small airport where the home’s current owner, Elizabeth Thigpen, learned to fly as a teenager.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
These fans haven’t learned that in this city, there’s three ways to spell Loser.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026

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The animals were discovered on Friday in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, home to pastoral tribal communities that raise cattle.

— Kristin Wright, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026
The group discovered early just how much responsibility for the community’s parks, landscaping and common areas rested with private organizations.

— Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of discovered

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In June, citing concerns related to hurricane season, DHS said all detainees at the Florida state-run center located at an isolated airstrip in the Everglades were transferred to other facilities.

— Gisela Salomon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Many affected people are located in resource-poor regions where dialysis and transplants are often unaffordable or inaccessible, which can increase the odds of premature death, Paidi noted.

— Shiv Sudhakar, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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