undig
English
Verb
undig (third-person singular simple present undigs, present participle undigging, simple past and past participle undug)
- (transitive) To undo the process of digging; to fill up (a hole or grave) or bury again (something unearthed).
- Mary Russell Mitford
- 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.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- […] let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug […]
- Mary Russell Mitford
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