DIG ONE'S OWN GRAVE

Meaning of DIG ONE'S OWN GRAVE in English

do something foolish which causes one's downfall.

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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRAVE — adj I. heavy; II. grave (1. solemn, important; 2. low-pitched, deep); accento grave [Gram.] grave accent
Interlingua English vocab
OWN — I. ˈōn adjective Etymology: Middle English owen, from Old English āgen; akin to Old High German eigan own, Old Norse …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRAVE — I. grave ˈgrāv verb ( graved -vd ; grav·en -vən ; or graved ; graving ; graves ) Etymology: Middle …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DIG — I. ˈdig verb ( dug ˈdəg ; or archaic digged ˈdigd ; dug or archaic digged ; digging ; digs …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Английский словарь Webster
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Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
OWN — /ohn/ , adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DIG — dig 1 /dig/ , v. , dug or ( Archaic ) digged, digging , n. v.i. 1. to break up, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OWN — I. ˈōn adjective Etymology: Middle English owen, from Old English āgen; akin to Old High German eigan own, Old Norse …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GRAVE — I. grave ˈgrāv transitive verb ( graved ; grav·en ˈgrā-vən ; or graved ; grav·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DIG — I. ˈdig verb ( dug ˈdəg ; dig·ging ) Etymology: Middle English diggen Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
OWN — adj to hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; …
Webster English vocab
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Webster English vocab
DIG — add. ·noun gouge. 2. dig ·add. ·noun an act of digging. 3. dig ·add. ·noun a tool for digging. 4. …
Webster English vocab
OWN — [own] adj [ME owen, fr. OE agen; akin to OHG eigan own, ON eiginn, OE agan to possess--more at owe] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRAVE — [grave] vt graved ; grav.en or graved ; grav.ing [ME, fr. OE grafan; akin to OHG graban to dig, OCS …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRAVE — I grave noun 'burial place'; adjective 'serious'; verb BrE AmE ɡreɪv ▷ graved ɡreɪvd ▷ graver ˈɡreɪv ə AmE - …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
GRAVE — I . *grave / greɪv; NAmE / noun , adjective —see also grave (II) ■ noun 1. a place in …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OWN — / əʊn; NAmE oʊn/ adjective , pronoun , verb ■ adjective , pronoun 1. used to emphasize that sth belongs …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIG — / dɪg; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( dig·ging , dug , dug / dʌg; NAmE /) 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OWN — I. own 1 S1 W1 /əʊn $ oʊn/ BrE AmE adjective , pronoun [always after a possessive] 1 . used …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRAVE — I. grave 1 /ɡreɪv/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: græf ] 1 . the place …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DIG — I. dig 1 S2 /dɪɡ/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle dug /dʌɡ/, present participle digging ) …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OWN — adj. & v. --adj. (prec. by possessive) 1 a belonging to oneself or itself; not another's (saw it with my …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRAVE — adj. & n. --adj. 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GRAVE — n. 1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OWN — adj. & v. adj. (prec. by possessive) 1 a belonging to oneself or itself; not another's (saw it with my …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRAVE — adj. & n. adj. 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GRAVE — n. 1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DIG — v. & n. v. (digging; past and past part. dug) 1 intr. break up and remove or turn over soil, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OWN — adj. & v. --adj. (prec. by possessive) 1. a belonging to oneself or itself; not another's (saw it with my …
Oxford English vocab
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
GRAVE — 1. n.1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b a mound or memorial …
Oxford English vocab
DIG — v. & n. --v. (digging; past and past part. dug) 1. intr. break up and remove or turn over soil, …
Oxford English vocab
OWN — ( owns, owning, owned) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GRAVE — Pronounced /greɪv/ except for meaning 5, when it is pronounced /grɑ:v/. ( graver, gravest) Frequency: The word is one of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIG — ( digs, digging, dug) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If people …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRAVE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a grave error (= extremely serious, with serious results ) ▪ He has committed …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DIG — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dig a ditch ▪ Ditches were dug to prevent the river from flooding. dig …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DIG — (MOVE EARTH) [verb] digging, past dug - to move and break up (earth) using a tool, a machine or your …
Cambridge English vocab
GRAVE — Synonyms and related words : abject, abominable, acute, afflictive, agonizing, annihilation, arch, aristocratic, arrant, assemble, atrocious, august, autolithograph, awe-inspiring, awful, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
OWN — See: COME INTO ONE'S OWN, DOSE OF ONE'S OWN MEDICINE, HOLD ONE'S OWN, IN A WORLD OF ONE'S OWN, KEEP …
Slang English vocab
GRAVE — See: ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, TURN IN ONE'S GRAVE or TURN OVER IN ONE'S GRAVE.
Slang English vocab
DIG — n. Function: verb 1 to loosen and turn over or remove (as soil) with or as if with a spade …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
DIG — I. verb 1. to loosen and turn over or remove (as soil) with or as if with a spade dig …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIG — I. noun 1 ( esp. BrE ) small push ADJECTIVE ▪ sharp VERB + DIG ▪ give ▪ She gave …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
OWN — INDEX: 1. to own something 2. when someone owns something 3. the person who owns something 4. the things that …
Longman Activator English vocab
OWN — See ↑ HAVE/NOT HAVE 1, ↑ OWN 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ alone/on your own/by yourself • ↑ be your own …
Longman Activator English vocab
DIG — INDEX: 1. to dig earth out of the ground 2. to remove something from the ground by digging RELATED WORDS …
Longman Activator English vocab
OWN — adj. 25B6; adjective he has his own reasons : PERSONAL, individual, particular, private, personalized, unique. 25B6; verb I own this …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIG — n. 25B6; verb she began to dig the heavy clay soil : TURN OVER, work, break up; till, harrow, plough. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
DIG — v. 1 excavate, burrow, gouge, scoop, hollow out; tunnel He dug a hole in which to set the post 2 …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab

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