Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To bring up out of the earth; dig up.
- transitive verb To bring to public notice; uncover.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In electricity, to break the ground connection of a circuit; to insulate from electrical contact with the earth.
- To drive or bring forth from an earth or burrow; drive from any underground hole or burrow; draw from the earth.
- To uncover from the earth; dig out of the ground; exhume, as fossils; exfodiate.
- To bring to light; discover; find out; disclose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
drive ordraw from theearth . - verb To
uncover orfind ; to bring out fromconcealment ; to bring to light; todisclose . - verb To
dig up .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bring to light
- verb recover through digging
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Examples
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The only thing they did unearth from a huge, four-foot deep, L-shaped hole was a white leather bootie.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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From time to time, specialist labels unearth long-lost treasures making their DVD debut, but many of these are more curious or collector's pieces than truly essential products.
Archive 2008-12-14 2008
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From time to time, specialist labels unearth long-lost treasures making their DVD debut, but many of these are more curious or collector's pieces than truly essential products.
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It will take longer and cost more to unearth, that is all.
Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900
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When the music labels unearth a file-sharer to prosecute, they apply the thumbscrews gently at first.
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The reason I ask Kris is, from previous posts, you seem to have a similar sort of process where you explore the story and kind of unearth it so to speak.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself Part One 2010
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Hey Paul .... did you ever think there just isnt anything there to "unearth"?
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Instead, Yglesias correctly notes, "there's incredible pressure to 'unearth' the 'truth' about the nominee and how deep down he or she is history's greatest monster."
Eric Alterman: Think Again: Sotomayor and SCOTUS: Captured on a Carousel of Time 2009
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If you think that it might help to "unearth" Mister Andrew
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Justice Tobias said he had not been able to "unearth" any evidence to support Dr Gorman's claims in the largely "argumentative, discursive and irrelevant" material the unrepresented doctor presented to the court, and found in favour of the tribunal.
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