Make a hole in the ground.
To dig, as in to understand or appreciate something, is not figurative language. Some sources hypothesize that it derives from an African dialectical word, degg, meaning to understand. Others credit Irish Gaelic and the word dtuig, which has the same definition.
Excavate is the word for dig up.
Another word for dig is excavate.
Excavate is the word for dig up.
to turn up or to dig out with the snout
Excavate means to dig out. It starts with the letters ex.
The word exhumed is used as a verb. The best definition for the word would include to unearth or uncover someone or something, that may have been previously burried or lost.
big dig
excavate
It depends on the context.
graben
cultivate