1 to dig

2 to excavate

3 to scoop out

1 to excavate

2 to dig

3 to unearth

1 temple (on the sides of human head)

1 excavator

1 to excavate

2 to hollow

1 How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

1 an ant hole may cause the collapse of a great dike (idiom)

2 huge damage may result from a moment's negligence

1 to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer

2 to rack one's brains

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

1 lit. wind from an empty cave (idiom)

2 fig. unfounded (story)

3 baseless (claim)