disentomb

== English == === Etymology === From dis- + entomb. === Verb === disentomb (third-person singular simple present disentombs, present participle disentombing, simple past and past participle disentombed) 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. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 130