dig out

verb

dug out; digging out; digs out

Synonyms of dig out next

transitive verb

: find, unearth

: to make hollow by digging

intransitive verb

: take off sense 1a

Examples of dig out in a Sentence

she dug her old art supplies out of the basement without saying where she was going, the young woman dug out early the next morning

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Millions of people throughout the South are digging out and dealing with serious closures Saturday after a massive winter storm dumped several inches of snow. —

Daniel Amarante, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2025 Sam Darnold was sacked on first down for a loss of 17, and Minnesota couldn’t dig out of the hole. —

Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025 Snow shovels were in high demand Monday as residents across the Kansas City metro dug out from a winter storm that dropped more than a foot of snow in some areas. —

Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025 They are mostly left to dig out survivors from under tons of broken stone, concrete and twisted metal with their hands and rudimentary tools. —

Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for dig out