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English
Etymology
From un- + tomb.
Verb
untomb (third-person singular simple present untombs, present participle untombing, simple past and past participle untombed)
- (transitive) To take (something, especially a body) from a tomb.
- Synonym: see at disentomb
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 , →OCLC, book II, page 51: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)
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