dug up's Usage Examples:

SettingIn the utopia described in the novel, the streets have been dug up and are replaced with gardens and fruit trees.

argued against the law, and after its passage spread rumours that markers delimitating the new settlement had been dug up by wolves – a very poor omen.

The bone was dug up at the opal fields of Andamooka, South Australia.

During the construction process, apparently 26 graves were dug up and 1,200 coconut trees were destroyed.

Part of the Swiss ConfederationFollowing increasing conflicts between the Appenzellers the abbot's agents, including the bailiff of Appenzell demanding that a dead body be dug up because he wanted the man's clothes, the Appenzellers planned an uprising.

Roads were dug up, preventing administration from entering the area.

Where there were villages, first-aid workers found large snowdrifts; when dug up, frozen corpses were often uncovered.

In winter 1979 during the Iranian Revolution, 12 female bodies were dug up under the local mosque, encased in died mud.

The meat is then dug up and hung up in strips to dry for several more months.

In 1992, a team from the Denver Museum of Natural History dug up a specimen of the dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops in Garden Park, Colorado.

Mary's graveyard were dug up and Lord Forbes's troops searched the bodies for rings, gold chains and the like.

When his body was dug up forty years later by his son Ailill, it showed no sign of decomposition.

Maintaining the herbaceous border is work-intensive, as the perennials have to be dug up every 3–4 years and divided to keep the bed clean-looking and prevent overgrowth.

Synonyms:

current,

Antonyms:

noncurrent, styleless,