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"dig a grave" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer either literally or metaphorically to digging a physical grave or digging some kind of metaphorical grave. For example: "After what she did, it felt like I was digging my own grave".
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He had to go to the cemetery and dig a grave.
She hides under a bush, watching Rafael dig a grave and fill it with corpses.
The ground was frozen, though, and the woman was unable to dig a grave.
They would dig a grave in the middle of the field.
"They tried to dig a grave for us but they fell in it themselves".
All I could think to do was dig a grave off in the woods and bury Kosher.
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As punishment for his escape, he is forced to repeatedly dig a grave-sized hole in the prison camp yard, fill it back in, then be beaten.
With good soil conditions, it's possible to hand-dig a grave in 1½ hours.
That morning, he had dug a grave.
TIGER: Start digging a grave.
I didn't answer; I dug a grave.
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