| Digging 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dig. 2. (n.) The act or the place of excavating. 3. (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. 4. (n.) Region; locality. Thesaurus Entries accelerando, acceleration, aggravation, amplification, annoyance, augmentation, beefing-up, blowing up, blowup, concentration, condensation, consolidation, contentiousness, deliberate aggravation, depression, deterioration, digging, drilling, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation, excavation, explosion, heating-up, heightening, increase, information explosion, intensification, irritation, lowering, magnification, mining, pickup, population explosion, probing, provocation, redoubling, reinforcement, sharpening, sinkage, sinking, souring, speedup, step-up, strengthening, tightening, tunneling, worsening |