1. to discover information about someone, esp. damaging information

1. The firm hired a private detective to dig up information on the former supervisor.

2. Have you dug up any information on the new employee?

2. Lit. to take something out of the ground by digging; to break the ground or to make a hole in it with a tool, machine, etc.

1. It's time we dug up those potatoes.

2. They're digging up the road outside to fix a faulty water main.

3. Why is that bush there? You were supposed to dig it up.