DIGGING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DIGGING?

Need another word that means the same as “digging”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “digging” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Digging” are: dig, excavation

Digging as a Noun

Definitions of "Digging" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “digging” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A small gouge (as in the cover of a book.
• The site of an archeological exploration.
• The act of digging.
• The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow.
• An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.

Synonyms of "Digging" as a noun (2 Words)

dig	The act of digging. They set up camp next to the dig.
excavation	The site of an archeological exploration. There s an interesting excavation going on near Princeton.

Associations of "Digging" (30 Words)

archaeologist	An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture. Chinese archaeologists uncovered life sized terracotta statues.
artifact	A man-made object taken as a whole.
ax	Chop or split with an ax. The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it.
burial	The action or practice of burying a dead body. His remains were shipped home for burial.
burrow	Move through by or as by digging. Worms that burrow through dead wood.
bury	Place (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb, usually with funeral rites. I tried to bury these unpleasant memories.
colliery	A coal mine and the buildings and equipment associated with it.
delve	Research or make painstaking inquiries into something. The approach from the surface above had awed her so hugely delved were the tunnels.
disinter	Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies. He has disinterred an important collection of writings.
dug	An udder or breast or teat.
excavate	Remove the inner part or the core of. Excavate a cavity.
excavation	A site that is being or has been excavated. There s an interesting excavation going on near Princeton.
exhume	Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried. The bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge.
fossil	Characteristic of a fossil. Sites rich in fossils.
hibernate	Be in an inactive or dormant state. Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves.
inhume	Place in a grave or tomb. No hand his bones shall gather or inhume.
inter	Place (a corpse) in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites. He was interred with the military honours due to him.
mallet	A long-handled wooden stick with a head like a hammer, used for hitting a croquet or polo ball.
mine	Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted. Mine ores and metals.
pit	A person s armpit. Pit plums and cherries.
plow	Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil. Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week.
quarry	Extract stone or other materials from a quarry. Quarry marble.
sarcophagus	A stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
scoop	Pick up and move something with a scoop. What s the scoop old timer.
sepulcher	A chamber that is used as a grave.
shovel	A fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace. An area of turf had been dug up by vandals using a pick and shovel.
tomb	A place for the burial of a corpse especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone. None escape the tomb.
underground	An underground railway especially the one in London. The late sixties underground.
unearth	Drive (an animal, especially a fox) out of a hole or burrow. Workmen unearthed an ancient artillery shell.
warren	An overcrowded residential area. A warren of narrow gas lit streets.