untomb
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]untomb (third-person singular simple present untombs, present participle untombing, simple past and past participle untombed)
- (transitive) To take (something) from a tomb; to disinter, to exhume.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Godfreys Death and Buriall”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 51:
- [P]erchance the Turks are minded as John King of England was, who being wiſhed by a Courtier to untombe the bones of one who whileſt he was living had been his great enemy, Oh no, ſaid King John, would all mine enemies were as honourably buried.
- to reveal (something hidden)
References
[edit]- “untomb”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.