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

to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks; also pr. [wa1 ku5]

to dig a hole

to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out; to start digging

to dig a hole; (fig.) to make things difficult for sb; (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project

to dig a grave; (lit.) to dig up a grave; (fig.) (slang) to dig up an old thread (in an online forum etc)

to dig into; to cut a mine into

to dig out; to eradicate

excavator; excavating machine (abbr. for 挖掘機|挖掘机[wa1 jue2 ji1])

to dredge

to mine ore or minerals; (computing) to mine cryptocurrency

to excavate; to dig out a cave

to excavate; to hollow

to poach (talent, personnel from competitors); to raid (a competitor for its talent); Taiwan pr. [wa1 jiao3]

to dredge

to dredge; to dig out (a channel)

earpick; curette

excavator; backhoe

to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something

excavator; excavating machine

dredger

ear pick

to pick one's nose

(dialect) earpick; curette

earpick; curette

excavator; bulldozer

to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer; to rack one's brains

to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient

data mining

see 吃水不忘掘井人[chi1 shui3 bu4 wang4 jue2 jing3 ren2]