disentomb

present singular third person disentombs · participle present disentombing · participle past disentombed · past disentombed

1. To remove from a tomb.

   He passed through the doorway into the back room, where several customers disentombed lost novels from the deep shelves.

   2003, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, New York: Scribner

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   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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] 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.

   Synonyms: exhume, disinter, untomb, ungrave