Chunk and Dig

Chunk

Chunk verb - Put together indiscriminately.

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Dig and chunk are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dig" instead a verb "Chunk".

Nearby Words: chunky, chunked, chunking

Dig verb - To hollow out or form (something) by removing earth.

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Chunk and dig are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chunk" instead a verb "Dig".

Nearby Words: digging, digged

human	human chunk	human dig
good	good chunk	good dig
small	small chunk	small dig
actual	actual chunk	actual dig
Other adjectives: massive, little, final, last, bigger.

Needle in a Stack of Needles: Jen has to dig through a box of nearly identical crystal shards to find the one that actually is the missing chunk of the Dark Crystal.

Source: Film / The Dark Crystal
Unlike most examples on this page, aquifers are usually more hindrance than help as it's impossible to dig through them without building an elaborate pumping system or abusing a glitch that happens when a chunk of terrain collapses.

Source: Rock of Limitless Water
The best way to find buried items is to dig a long corridor in seemingly unused portion of the map (if you walk in the naturally generated corridors, you might sometimes see that map left a big chunk without any rooms or corridors).

Source: Guide Dang It / Pokémon

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