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
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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 Sir John Carr
"Come on, my lads!" vociferated Blueskin, "we'll unkennel the old fox."
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
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 William Gilmore Simms
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 A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
If we cannot unkennel the fox," he said, "we will at least earth him up.
From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
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 Emma Lazarus
The whimpering of one of his unkenneled "hunches" merged into what seemed an actual voice of inspiration to him.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
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 Tyrone Power
During a period of repose a fox was unkennelled in thePage 433 neighbourhood of Corja, in Spain.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse
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 Robert Chambers
They unkennelled at Punpernwood, four miles east of Blandford.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
What must have been Petrarch's horror at these unkennelled hounds!
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
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 William Godwin
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
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