UNEARTH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they unearth ... he / she / it unearths

Past simple: unearthed

Past participle: unearthed

-ing form: unearthing

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recover through digging

Example:

excavate gold

Synonyms:

excavate; unearth

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "unearth" is one way to...):

bring out; reveal; unveil (make visible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "unearth"):

dig; dig out; dig up (remove, harvest, or recover by digging)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s Adjective

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bring to light

Example:

The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "unearth" is one way to...):

locate; turn up (discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Credits

Context examples:

Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man’s cruelty, at once so callous and violent; of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Paleontologists have been working to reconstitute a complete sauropod skeleton from several different specimens that have been unearthed from Angeac-Charente in the last decade — with the reconstruction now around 50 per cent complete.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Palaeontologists unearthed a two meters long thigh bone that belonged to a giant sauropod dinosaur around 140 million years ago.