untomb

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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)

  1. (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.
  2. to reveal (something hidden)

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