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Unearth   /ənˈərθ/   Listen
Unearth

verb
(past & past part. unearthed; pres. part. unearthing)
1.
Bring to light.
2.
Recover through digging.  Synonym: excavate.  "Excavate gold"






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"Unearth" Quotes from Famous Books



... the stockman; "in fact, in this brief communication he admits that he is located somewhere along the Grand Canyon, in a place where travelers have as yet never penetrated. I can only guess that Uncle Felix must have been seized with a desire to unearth treasures that might tell the history of those strange old cliff dwellers, who occupied much of that country as long as eight hundred years ago. All he mentions about his hiding place is to call it Echo Cave. You never heard ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson

... how he had hired Fogerty to unravel the mystery of his former life, and how the great detective had gone to work so intelligently and skillfully that, with the aid of a sketch Hetty had once made of the pressman, and which Mr. Merrick sent on, he had been able to identify the man and unearth the ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation • Edith Van Dyne

... their exploiters, and he is not only refused work, but thrashed mercilessly. When finally he succeeds in getting inside, he discovers with growing indignation the shameless and inhuman way in which those who unearth the black coal are ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair

... awfully keen about Egyptian history and mythology, but he hates detail too much to give his mind and time to all the hard grind of the thing—he likes to study the history we unearth." ...
— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer

... teacher, who sees in it a part of the livery of bondage, have driven this quaint combination of ancestral traditions to the remote chimney corners of old black aunties, from which it is difficult for the stranger to unearth them. Mr. Harris, in his Uncle Remus stories, has, with fine literary discrimination, collected and put into pleasing and enduring form, the plantation stories which dealt with animal lore, but so little ...
— The Conjure Woman • Charles W. Chesnutt


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