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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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digging

/dɪɡ/

US pronunciation
American sound/dɪɡ/
digging
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final ng sound

dig - ging -> digging

Myanmar meaning

(n) တူးခြင်း။

Full entry

dig /dÇg/ v (-gg- ; pt, pp dug /dʌg/)

၁။ (က) တူးသည်။ ဆွသည်။
I spent the morning digging. ❍ They are digging through the hill to make a tunnel. ❍ dig down into the soil ❍ It is difficult to dig the ground when it is frozen. ❍ dig the soil away (from the roots) ❍ dig the manure into the soil. (ခ) တွင်းစသည် တူးသည်။
dig a pit/tunnel/shaft.
(ဂ) ~ for sth တူးဖော်ရှာဖွေသည်။
dig for mineral deposits.
၂။ (dated infml ) ခံစားသည်။ နှစ်သက်သည်။ တန်ဖိုးထားသည်။ နားလည်သည်။
I don't dig modern jazz.
n
၁။ (က) လက်နှင့်တို့ခြင်း၊ ထိုးခြင်း။ (တံတောင်နှင့်) တွက်ခြင်း။
give sb a dig in the ribs. (ခ) ~(at sb) ထေ့လုံး။ ငေါ့လုံး။ She's always making mean little digs at him.
၂။ (က) တူးဖော်ခြင်း။
(ခ) ရှေးဟောင်းသုတေသနဆိုင်ရာ တူးဖော်ခြင်း။ go on (ie take part in) a dig.
❏ dig one's heels/toes in [IDM ] ခေါင်းမာသည်။
❏ dig in; dig into sth [PHRV ] (infml )
၁။ အားပါးတရ စားသည်။ လွေးသည်။ The food's ready, so dig in!
၂။ ထိုးသည်။ (ခြေဖနောင့်) ဖိစိုက်သည်။
The stiff collar dug into my neck.
❏ dig sth in; dig sth into sth [PHRV ]
၁။ တူးဆွ၍ ရောနှောသည်။
The manure should be well dug in.
၂။ ထိုးစိုက်သည်။ စိုက်ဝင်စေသည်။
She dug a spoon into the vegetables and put a large helping on her plate. ❍ The rider dug his spurs into the horse's flank. ❍ The dog dug its teeth in.
❏ dig oneself in [PHRV ]
၁။ (military ) (ကတုတ်၊ ပစ်ကျင်း စသည်) တူးသည်။
၂။ (infml ) (အလုပ်တစ်ခုခု၊ တစ်နေရာရာတွင်) အတည်တကျ အခြေချသည်။
❏ dig sb in the ribs [IDM ] နံဘေးကို တံတောင်နှင့်တွက်၍ အချက်ပေးသည်။
❏ dig (deep) in/into one's pocket(s) [IDM ] ငွေကုန် ကြေးကျခံသည်။
❏ dig sb/sth out (of sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ တူးဖော်သည်။ တူးထုတ်သည်။
They dug the potatoes out (of the ground). ❍ He was buried by an avalanche and had to be dug out.
၂။ ရှာဖွေလေ့လာသည်။
dig information out of books and reports ❍ dig out the truth.
၃။ (infml ) ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိသည်။
I dug out this old photo (from my desk).
❏ dig sth over [PHRV ] မြေကို တူးဆွ၍ ပြုပြင်သည်။ dig the garden over.
❏ dig one's own grave [IDM ] ကိုယ့်သေတွင်းကိုယ်တူး သည်။
❏ dig sth up [PHRV ]
၁။ (မြေကို) တူးဆွသည်။
dig up land for a new garden.
၂။ တူးဖော်သည်။ တူးထုတ်သည်။ တူးရာတွင်ပေါ်လာသည်။
We dug up the tree by its roots. ❍ An old Roman coin was dug up here last month.
၃။ ဖော်ထုတ်သည်။
Newspapers love to dig up scandal.

More examples
  • The children like to dig in the sand.
  • We dug a hole and planted the tree.
  • [dig for something] : The boys were digging for worms.
  • [freshly/newly dug] : A freshly dug grave
  • The press have already started to dig.
  • I really dig their music.
Synonyms
excavate, tunnel, hollow out, burrow, mine, quarry, accept, appreciate, apprehend, archaeological site, bore, break up, bring to light, bulldoze, cat, catch, channel, clean, come across, come up with, comprehend, concave, crack, cut, cutting remark, deepen, delve, depress, dig down, diggings, discover, dredge, drill, drive, enjoy, enter, excavation, exhume, expose, extricate, find, follow, fork out, gibe, go for, go into, gouge, grasp, groove, grub, harvest, hoe, innuendo, inquire, insult, investigate, investigate; discover, jab, jeer, jog, like, look into, love, mind, nudge, penetrate, pierce, pit, plow, plunge, poke, probe, prod, produce, prospect, punch, push, quip, rake, ram, recognize, relish, remark, research, retrieve, root, root out, rout, sap, scoop, scoop out, search, search high and low, see, shake down, shove, shovel, sift, sink, slur, sneer, spade, stab, stick, take, take in, taunt, till, turn, turn inside out, turn over, turn upside down, uncover, undermine, understand, unearth, wisecrack
Antonyms
avoid, bury, compliment, cover, disallow, discourage, dislike, disregard, dissuade, exit, fill, flattery, hate, increase, lose, misunderstand, neglect, not get, praise, refuse, reject, repress, scorn, strengthen, withdraw
Cross references
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