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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disentomb .
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Examples
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On the 27th of June it was "disentombed" from what many supposed was its final resting place.
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes
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Our dead are too easily disentombed by entrepreneurial politicians.
Grant Brooke, M.Div.: Hindsight: Burying the Ghost of Ground Zero M.Div. Grant Brooke 2010
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The disentombed paganism continued to ferment and rot the hearts of the people till in the next century it burst forth in the deluge of unbridled passions that marked the Reformation.
The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan
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On descending from the tower, we passed through storehouses filled with broken remains of figures, capitals, plinths, and other fragments disentombed from the Forum, etc.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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Around the ghastly sloth-bear, disentombed from his burrows in the gloomiest woods of Mysore or
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 Various
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Even making allowance for the wonderful labors of the Germans and the extraordinary addition which their learned toils have made to our knowledge of the subject, we should say that the work before us has almost disentombed many portions of Greek life.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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Forum of Rome should have been thus disentombed at the very time that
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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This mammoth was disentombed during the great thaw of the summer.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 Various
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What such a passage of literature would be to us, the journal of to-day may be to some long distant age, when it is disentombed from the crumbling corner-stone of some Astor House, Exchange, or Trinity
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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Worlds of fine thinking lie buried in that vast abyss, never to be disentombed or restored to human admiration.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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