disentomb
Americanverb (used with object)
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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.
From The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Gibault grasped at this wild plan as a drowning man is said to grasp at a straw, and lent his aid right willingly to disentomb and carry the brandy keg.
From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Archibald Webb
A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathized with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies.
From The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Such skeletons dwell in the hearts of most; hands need be tender that disentomb them and drag out to daylight ashes so mournful and so grievous, guarded so tenaciously, hidden so jealously.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
Resuscitated monarchs disentomb Grave-reptiles with them, in their new life-throes.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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