untomb

present singular third person untombs · participle present untombing · participle past untombed · past untombed

1. transitiveTo take (something, especially a body) from a tomb.

   [P]erchance the Turks are minded as John King of England was, who being wiſhed by a Courtier to untombe the bones of one who whileſt he was living had been his great enemy, Oh no, ſaid King John, would all mine enemies were as honourably buried.

   1639, Thomas Fuller, “Godfreys Death and Buriall”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 51

   Synonyms: see at disentomb

2. to reveal (something hidden)