Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove from or as if from a tomb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take out of a tomb; disinter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To take out from a tomb; a disinter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove from a
tomb .
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Examples
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The result was literally overwhelming, for in a moment he was almost buried in snow, to the unutterable delight of his sister, who stood screaming with laughter as the unfortunate boy struggled to disentomb himself.
Silver Lake 1859
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A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathized with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies.
The World of Ice 1859
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A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies.
The World of Ice 1859
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Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit -- the scene of the labors of M. Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of M.sopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace.
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Such changes must be slow, for the changes in the universe are very slow; but just as these slow changes become important, when we look at results after long periods of action, as we do when we perceive the alterations of the earth's surface during geological epochs; so the parallel changes in animal form become more and more striking, in proportion as the time they have been going on is great; as we see when we compare our living animals with those which we disentomb from each successively older geological formation.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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a straw, and lent his aid right willingly to disentomb and carry the brandy keg.
The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Archibald Webb 1859
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Oh! would to God that we might disentomb the spirit of the Past as easily as her records! "
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
hernesheir commented on the word disentomb
Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for the phrase "Explain fully and quickly cause of delay". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 22, 2013