disentomb

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ entomb.

Verb

disentomb (third-person singular simple present disentombs, present participle disentombing, simple past and past participle disentombed)

1. To remove from a tomb.

   Synonyms: exhume, disinter, untomb; ungrave (obsolete)

   Hyponym: grave-rob

   • 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, [1]

     […] 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.

Derived terms

• disentombment

 

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 130