English-German translations for dig out

• ausgraben
  Wir wurden dort gefragt, ob wir schweres Gerät besorgen könnten, um den Menschen in Dschenin zu ermöglichen, die Leichen, die dort noch immer liegen, ausgraben zu können. What we were asked for was heavy equipment to enable the people in Jenin to dig out the bodies that are still there.

Definition of dig out

• To remove something by digging
• To find or retrieve something buried
• To make something by digging
• To decamp; to leave a place hastily
• To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second

Examples

• The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger
• Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug himself out of the hole he had been buried in
• I shall try to dig out my old textbooks
• We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire
• Id like to dig her out

Related words

• dig through
• digging out
• digital counter
• indigenous
• prodigious
• prodigiously
• double-digit
• indigenousness
• digamous