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Unearth
//ʌnˈɜː(ɹ)θ// verb
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To drive or draw from the earth.
"to unearth a fox or a badger"
- 2 recover through digging wordnet
- 3 To dig up. broadly
"Modern archaeological excavations have unearthed the remains of a large number of ancient cities that lay buried deep under the sands for more than a thousand years, along the trade route from Bactria to China passing between the Tien Shan mountains in the north and the desert of Taklamakan in the south."
- 4 discover by investigation wordnet
- 5 To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment.
"Near-synonym: discover"
Etymology
From Middle English unherthen, equivalent to un- + earth.
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