disentomb
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Etymology
Verb
disentomb (third-person singular simple present disentombs, present participle disentombing, simple past and past participle disentombed)
- To remove from a tomb.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter IX,
- […] the three men emerged into the open air in a queer looking depression about thirty feet deep. The sun shone into it fiercely, and the disentombed travellers were nearly blinded by its effulgence.
- 2003, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, New York: Scribner:
- He passed through the doorway into the back room, where several customers disentombed lost novels from the deep shelves.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter IX,
Derived terms
References
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 130
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