unearth
Use Unearth in a sentence
verb (used with object)
1.
to dig or get out of the earth; dig up.
2.
to uncover or bring to light by search, inquiry, etc.: The lawyer unearthed new evidence.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to dig up out of the earth |
| 2. | to reveal or discover, esp by exhaustive searching |
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Unearth
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is skedaddle. Does it mean:
| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
| to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly. |
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Example sentences
The true challenge posed by the runaway growth in information is to unearth useful bits from this mountain of dross.
In that case, if you have had time to pack your bag, it might be something for the archaeologists to unearth.
There is the tricky relationship between what they unearth for their books and what goes into the paper.
To unearth the bacteria's inner workings, the researchers zapped the connective proteins with multiple ultrafast laser pulses.
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