digging out (noun)

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• digging up — noun the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried • Syn: ↑exhumation, ↑disinterment • Derivationally related forms: ↑disinter (for: ↑disinterment), ↑exhume ( …   Useful english dictionary

• dug|out — «DUHG OWT», noun. 1. a rough shelter or cave formed by digging into the side of a hill, trench, or the like, and often reinforced with logs: »During war, soldiers use dugouts for protection against bullets, bombs, and shells. 2. a small shelter… …   Useful english dictionary

• dug·out — /ˈdʌgˌaʊt/ noun, pl outs [count] 1 : a low shelter that faces a baseball field and contains the bench where the players and coaches of a team sit 2 : a shelter that is made by digging a hole in the ground or into the side of a hill 3 : a small… …   Useful english dictionary

• excavation — noun a) the act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass b) a cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping …   Wiktionary

• stump spud — noun a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds • Syn: ↑spud • Hypernyms: ↑hand shovel * * * noun : spud 2b …   Useful english dictionary

• cold trailing — noun : a method of controlling smoldering forest fires by feeling the edge of a burning area with the hand and digging out or trenching round burning spots …   Useful english dictionary

• freezing process — noun Etymology: freezing from gerund of freeze (I) 1. : a process of excavating shafts or tunnels in unstable material (as quicksand) by freezing an area larger than the intended work and excavating in the frozen earth 2. : a method of sinking a… …   Useful english dictionary

• gouge — gouge1 [ gaudʒ ] verb transitive 1. ) to cut long deep holes in something 2. ) to make someone pay more money than they should: They managed to gouge a small fortune out of my father. Merchants were warned against price gouging. ,gouge out… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• ex|ca|va|tion — «EHKS kuh VAY shuhn», noun. 1. the act or process of digging out or up; digging; an excavating: »The excavation for the basement of our new house took three days. [Crete] whose magnificent prehistory was brought to light only 50 years ago by the… …   Useful english dictionary

• gouge — I UK [ɡaʊdʒ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms gouge : present tense I/you/we/they gouge he/she/it gouges present participle gouging past tense gouged past participle gouged 1) to cut long deep holes in something 2) mainly American to make… …   English dictionary

• Geotechnical engineering — [ Boston s Big Dig presented geotechnical challenges in an urban environment.] Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. Geotechnical engineering includes investigating …   Wikipedia