DIGOUT

dig out

Verb

  1. To find, or retrieve something by removing overlying material, or material that hides it
    The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.
    I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.
    Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug out of the hole he had been buried in.


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