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to unbury

to unbury

1 5.8
To take something out of the ground after it is covered
  • verb
  • /ʌnˈbɛri/
translation icon : desenterrar
  • After the storm, we had to unbury the lawn from all the debris that had accumulated.

Examples

  • They are bodies left unburied.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Go back and unbury the body?

    Mean Creek (2004)

  • ...until his corpse, unburied, is carrion for foxes and crows!

    Robin Hood (2010)

  • The archaeologists will unbury ancient artifacts during their excavation of the site.

  • They decided to unbury the treasures that had been hidden in the garden for years.

Synonyms

to uncover
vsto unbury
37 2.7

Remove a cover to show what is under it

is about removing from ground or places where it was hidden
to dig out
vsto unbury
21 3.4

Find and take out something that is hidden or forgotten

is used for taking items out from ground or any hidden place
to uncloak
vsto unbury
1 7.7

To make something hidden become visible by removing a cover or showing the truth

is used for removing items from earth or any concealed spot
to unconceal
vsto unbury
7.7

To show something that was hidden

focuses on physical removal from ground or hidden places

Antonyms

to bury
254 1.6

To cover something completely so it cannot be seen

How Revealed

to reveal
∞ 2.3
to unearth
18 4.2
to unbury
1 5.8
to dig up
139 2.0

Surface Forms

unbury infinitive
unburied past
unburied past participle
unburying present participle
unburies third person singular

Morphology

unbury = bury (transparent) = un + bury

The prefix 'un-' clearly indicates the reversal of the action 'bury'.

Etymology

Unbury is made of the prefix un- and the verb bury, where un- means 'reverse', like in undo, and bury means 'to put into the ground' or 'to hide'. So unbury is easy to remember as the act of taking something out of the ground or out from under what covers it.