Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

dig out

verb

Forms digs out digging out dug out

verb (transitive) To remove something by digging. “The archaeologist dug out a Saxon dagger.”
verb (transitive, sometimes figurative) To find or retrieve something buried. “I shall try to dig out my old textbooks.”
verb (transitive) To make something by digging. “We had to dig out our foxhole while under fire.”
verb (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
verb (transitive, slang) To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone. “I'd like to dig her out.”
verb (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.

Synonyms

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “dig out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details