excavating, unearthing, burying, burrowing, shoveling, poking, combing, sifting, plowing, uncovering, rummaging, crawling, scouring, tunneling, trudging, reburying, delving, digged, spaded, dynamiting, piling, exhuming, ferreting, scraping, extracting, searching, grinding, bulldozing, salting, wading, laying, dig deep, finding, plugging, chiseling, tilling, trenching, weeding, picking, dumping, tearing, mucking, scrounging, slogging, surveying, blasting, retrieving, disinterring, patching, tidying, scooping, mortaring, planting, whacking, hauling, chipping, tamped, collecting, mulching, rototill, carting, raiding, shoring, carving, drudging, pulling, stringing, stashing, cremating, dissecting, emplacing, hiding, ripping, cleaning, piecing, grub hoe, raking, dusting, tapping, seeping, mopping, peeking, chewing, draining, putting, toiling, dowsing, hoeing, constructing, sawing, bushwhacking, repairing, hosing, reattaching, clambering, pumping, scrubbing, clawing, dredge, mowing, sneaking, turfing, excavation, ploughing, drilling, prospecting, quarrying, dredging, polishing, baking, looting, excavations, farming, hunting, boring, gathering, harvesting, chopping, cutting, building, painting, testing, weaving, dressing, grading, killing

., burrow, clam, claw, cut, dig, digging up, dig out, dig up, disinterment, ditch spade, entrenching tool, excavate, excavation, exhumation, fatigue, fatigue duty, fork, fossorial, fossorial foot, fossorial mammal, gravedigger, long-handled spade, mattock, sapper, spud, stump spud, trenching spade, tunnel, turn up, tusk, unearth

creating by removal, hunt, hunting, search, searching

dig, excavation, ransacking, rummage