to exhume; to unearth; to dig out

Digg (social news website)

excavator

grave digger

to exhume a body for public flogging (idiom)

to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into

to excavate; to explore; (fig.) to unearth; to tap into

to excavate; to extract (ore)

to scrape together money (abbr. for 羅雀掘鼠|罗雀掘鼠[luo2 que4 jue2 shu3])

to dig; to excavate; (fig.) to explore (archival materials) and unearth findings