dig (sth) into sb/sth
— Phrasal Verb with dig /dɪg/ verb (present participle digging, past tense and past participle dug)Definition
› to press or push hard into someone or something, or to press something hard into someone or something: She dug her fingernails into my wrist. A stone was digging into my heel.
(Definition of dig (sth) into sb/sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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