Dig up
Dig up verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
Usage example: she tried to dig up any information she could for the report on sharks
Find out
Find out verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
Usage example: found out where she lived by checking the phone book
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Ned and Chuck later dig up Chuck's father and bring him back to life so that they can find out the truth about Dwight.
Source: Grave Robbing -
Then they find out the bridge is being demolished to make way for a wildlife centre, so they dig up the bodies, hoping to rebury them under the concrete of the new centre.
Source: Dead Man's Chest -
Eventually, they dig up corpses from the burial mound to try and find any corpses preserved in the cold only for the one they dug up being a flash-frozen zombie, who bites one of them when he ungags her to find out how she "came back to life".
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