undig

verb

undig

verb

/ʌnˈdɪɡ/

Etymology From un- + dig.

1

To undo the process of digging; to fill up (a hole or grave) or bury again (something unearthed).

  • 1824-1832, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village Tom Cordery dead! the words seem almost a contradiction. One is tempted to send for the sexton and the undertaker, to undig the grave, to force open the coffin-lid — there must he some mistake.
  • […] let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug […]1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

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