Verb: dig up
- Find by digging in the ground
"I dug up an old box in the garden";
- excavate, turn up
- Remove, harvest, or recover by digging
"dig up salt";
- dig, dig out
- Recover through digging
"Schliemann dug up Troy";
- excavate, unearth
- Find, discover or bring to light after significant investigation or search
"The CIA dug up a plot to kill the President";
- unearth, root out, dig out
Derived forms: dug up, digging up, digs up