unkennel
Americanverb (used with object)
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to drive (a fox or other animal) from a den or lair.
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to release from or as if from a kennel.
to unkennel hounds before a hunt; to unkennel a gang of cutthroats.
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to make known; disclose or uncover.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to release from a kennel
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to drive from a hole or lair
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rare to bring to light
Etymology
Origin of unkennel
Example Sentences
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It is the intention of the first consul gradually to unkennel this clattering race of females, when it can be done with safety.
From The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir
Not a man in the county could ride harder, hunt deer, unkennel fox, unearth badger, or spear otter, better than he.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Some readers are misled by the words in the latter passage: if his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
“He is nowhere below, but we shall probably unkennel him in the upper story,” I heard one of them say as they mounted the stairs.
From In New Granada Heroes and Patriots by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Keep your secret, if you please, but, if you provoke me, I will trace it out; I will unkennel you.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore
The whimpering of one of his unkenneled "hunches" merged into what seemed an actual voice of inspiration to him.
From Never-Fail Blake by Stringer, Arthur
Shall we desert snug homes? forego the sum Scraped through laborious years to smooth life's slope, And die like dogs unkenneled and untombed, At bidding of a sorrow-crazed old man?
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
I have no recollection how the papers found their way into the old trunk from which they were lately unkennelled.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
They had always 3 or 4 Coats or coverings, and in the folds of these were unkennelled 1,330 Napoleons on one of them who happened to die at Bruxelles.
From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Stanley, Edward
They unkennelled at Punpernwood, four miles east of Blandford.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
In the suburbs we unkennelled the dogs: the pack consisted of twenty, all counted; ill-matched as to size and bone, but appearing healthy, clean, full of spirits, and in good working trim.
From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone
During a period of repose a fox was unkennelled in thePage 433 neighbourhood of Corja, in Spain.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Jesse, Edward
What, sir, do you mean at the unkennelling, untapezing, or earthing of the fox?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
He determined to leave all other objects, and consecrate every faculty of his mind to the unkennelling me from my hiding-place.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
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