Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbmining; digging; working (a mine)

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbexcavation; exhumation; digging up; unearthing · discovery (of a new fact, talent, etc.); finding; unearthing

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbdigging out; excavation

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Adverb (fukushi)inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbprospecting; trial digging

Nounpocket gopher

Nouncanal; waterway; ditch

Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verbtunnelling (through); excavation; drilling; boring

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbillegal digging; illegal mining; grave robbing; tomb robbing

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbovermining (e.g. of coal); reckless mining

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbmining

Noun, Suru verbexploratory excavation; prospecting

Noun, Suru verbscouring (of a riverbed or seafloor)

Noundigging for sweet potatoes (esp. as an outing) · country bumpkin; yokel

Nounprospector

Nounprospecting rights; mining claim

Nounmining rights

Nounexcavator

Noungravedigger

Nounpillar sunk into the ground

Nounburrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)

Nounexcavation team; dig team

NounScaphopoda (class of molluscs comprising the tooth shells)

Noun, Suru verbexcavation; digging

Nounbareback sex (esp. male gay); unprotected sex

Nounminer

Noun, Suru verbdigging deeply (below the surface); mining deep · probing deeply (issue, problem); investigating thoroughly · deepening relations

Noundrillship

Nountest pit; pilot tunnel

Nounmining site; quarry; diggings; stope

Nounwell digging; well digger

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verbto dig out; to pick up

Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Transitive verbto dig through; to drill into; to excavate

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verbto dig up; to turn up; to tear up · to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

Nounsurface mining; open-cut mining; open-pit mining

Nouna well

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbdraining a pond, lake or ditch (esp. to remove fish, purify water, etc.) · cleaning a well

Nountrench digging machine; trencher

Godan verb with 'mu' endingto burrow through; to dig through

Nounerection of a pillar by sinking it directly into the ground

Noununderground mining

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'ru' endingto dig up lotus roots

Noundig site; excavation site

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verbto undermine; to sap; to dig away

Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Transitive verbto dig into

Noun, Suru verbexcavation (usu. archeological); dig

Noundesecration of a tomb; grave excavation

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'ru' endingto perform anal sex (between men); to bugger; to sodomize; to sodomise · to crash a car into the back of another; to rear-end

Ichidan verb, Transitive verbto dig down · to dig into (a matter); to delve into; to probe into; to investigate; to get to the bottom of