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Digging
- verb -
- create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel"
- get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
- remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging; "dig salt"; "dig coal"
- thrust down or into; "dig the oars into the water"; "dig your foot into the floor"
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration"
- work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Dignify
- verb - confer dignity or honor upon; "He was dignified with a title"
- raise the status of; "I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer"
Dignity
- noun - formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity"
- high office or rank or station; "he respected the dignity of the emissaries"
- the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure"
Dimming
- verb - become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"
- become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver"
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
Dimwits
- noun - a stupid incompetent person
Dingier
- adjective - (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
- causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
- thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
Dingily
- adverb - in a dingy manner
Dinging
- verb - go `ding dong', like a bell
- make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat"
- make dingy
Dinkier
- adjective - (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat"
- small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"