Synonyms for digging
dig·ging

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1. excavation, digging, dignoun

   the act of digging

   "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton"

   Synonyms:
   barb, dig, excavation, jab, slam, shot, shaft, archeological site, jibe, gibe, mining

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1. diggingnoun

   Synonyms:
   excavation, exhumation (digging up)

   Associated words:
   fossorial, fodient

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1. List of paraphrases for "digging":

   dig, excavation, drilling, dug, burrowing, excavating, delving, hafr

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1. David Siik:

   I was really concerned that people weren't really understanding that there are consequences for sprinting on too big of an incline all the time, so after a lot of research and really digging into what happens to the body on an incline, we created the 5 percent incline guideline-- we don’t do any maximum sprinting over a 5 percent incline so that you aren’t putting too much pressure on your lower back. We just recalculated the work load so it feels better.

2. Van Niekerk:

   It's great. I'm going out there and competing, trying to stay as clean as possible and it's nice knowing the game is going to be fair, it's good to know they are going out there and digging out the guys who have been cheating. It's not a nice feeling knowing you are putting your all out there and somebody else is cheating.

3. Blake Shelton:

   Being it's the 50th, it's cool we're going way back and we're honoring some of these artists that have been here like Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert — digging way back.

4. Preston Grinstead:

   A lot of the assignments required uploading documents, scanning things, using Dropbox, emailing teachers, [His] reading level was about what you would expect of a first grader. So to expect him to be able to do that when they haven’t even really begun digging into how to use a computer, is very unrealistic.

5. Ashley Cuffia:

   It all depends on how much digging they did and if they cut down a whole bunch of trees since they do depend on tree sap to survive.