Meaning & use

Digged

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An archaic past tense and past participle of "dig," meaning excavated or turned up earth.

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They digged a pit for the fire, as the old text describes.

The workers digged trenches by hand before machinery was common.

A note on using this word

Once standard, "digged" survives mainly in older texts such as the King James Bible; modern English uses "dug" instead.

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