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- Dictionaryunearth/ʌnˈəːθ/
verb
- 1. find (something) in the ground by digging: "workmen unearthed an ancient artillery shell" Similar Opposite
- 2. drive (an animal, especially a fox) out of a hole or burrow.
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UNEARTH definition: 1. to find something in the ground : 2. to find something that was hidden or covered: 3. to find…. Learn more.
to find something in the ground : Building at the site was halted after human remains were unearthed earlier this month. The well-preserved skeleton was unearthed from the cellar of a 1660s house. Last year, a man using a metal detector unearthed a hoard of 5,000 Roman coins.
The meaning of UNEARTH is to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume. How to use unearth in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Unearth.
Definition of 'unearth' unearth. (ʌnɜːʳθ ) Word forms: unearths , unearthing , unearthed. 1. verb. If someone unearths facts or evidence about something bad, they discover them with difficulty, usually because they were being kept secret or were being lied about. Researchers have unearthed documents linking her to the forced adoption of children.
to uncover or bring to light by search, inquiry, etc.: The lawyer unearthed new evidence. unearth. / ʌnˈɜːθ / verb. to dig up out of the earth. to reveal or discover, esp by exhaustive searching.
To unearth something is to dig it up. You could unearth a coffin, or even a tee shirt buried in the bottom of a drawer. To put something in the earth is to bury it, to unearth it is to take it back out.
UNEARTH definition: 1. to find something in the ground: 2. to find something that has been secret or hidden: . Learn more.
Definitions of 'unearth'. 1. If someone unearths facts or evidence about something bad, they discover them with difficulty, usually because they were being kept secret or were being lied about. [...] 2. If someone unearths something that is buried, they find it by digging in the ground.
unearth something to find or discover something by chance or after searching for it synonym dig up. I unearthed my old diaries when we moved house. The newspaper has unearthed some disturbing facts. See unearth in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
verb. 1. discover, find, reveal, expose, turn up, uncover, bring to light, ferret out, root up No evidence has yet been unearthed. 2. dig up, excavate, exhume, dredge up, disinter Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant.
