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dug around

dug around is the simple past and past participle of dig around.

Meaning of dig around

Verb

dig around (third-person singular simple present digs around, present participle digging around, simple past and past participle dug around)

  1. (transitive) To thoroughly search every part of an area or a container in hopes of finding something.

Questions about dug around

What is dug around the simple past and past participle of?
Dug around is the simple past and past participle of dig around.

Words near dug around in the dictionary

  1. Dufty
  2. Duftys
  3. dufus
  4. dufuses
  5. dug
  6. dug around
  7. dug deep
  8. dug for victory
  9. dug in
  10. dug in one's heels
  11. dug into

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dug around (page history and authors); dig around (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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