1dig out
To find, or retrieve something by removing overlying material, or material that hides it
The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.
I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.
2dig out
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3dig out
Used other than as an idiom: see dig, out.
Houdini not only got out of the ropes: he also dug out of the hole he had been buried in.
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