to unearth
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4.4
- verb
- /ʌnˈɜrθ/
:
descubrir
- The archaeologists worked tirelessly to unearth ancient artifacts buried deep beneath the soil.
- unearth the truth
- unearth evidence
- unearthed the fact
He he continues to put his reporters undercover and to unearth people's true character.
- He he continues to put his reporters undercover and to unearth people's true character.
- If anything, you know, were to go wrong, they would be able to unearth it and fix it easily.
- That medication created a safer baseline in my system so I could unearth the deepest, deepest wounds and come out the other side.
- He says the person who asks what remarks were made about him and unearths nasty gossip even if it was kept secret, just upsets himself.
- You've had a fascinating career looking at this in depth for a long time, and we're going to unearth all of it.
- And if you know him on podcasts, you realize, like, he is genuinely trying to unearth some things that are genuinely disturbing for most people.
- I promise you, you will start to unearth something that's going to make you go.
- All of the Elon Musk's stuff about unearthing fraud during discovery is nonsense.
- When he was a student here doing his doctorate, he unearthed an electronic program which people could join.
Examples
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My literature search did not unearth any more recent studies on the topic.
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That medication created a safer baseline in my system so I could unearth the deepest, deepest wounds and come out the other side.
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And that allows them to start to unearth everything that word means.
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If anything, you know, were to go wrong, they would be able to unearth it and fix it easily.
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And I have turned my research to unearth some secrets here.
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The next three days were dedicated to unearthing quality and relevant resources.
Academic text (2014) -
At law firms, automated search software unearths paper trails among hundreds of thousands of legal documents.
Academic text (2012) -
Edna saw our documentation project as the perfect opportunity to unearth these portfolios.
Academic text (1998) -
He he continues to put his reporters undercover and to unearth people's true character.
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After some rigorous research, Esquire has unearthed some other dressing-room demands:
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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1.0
To discover something while looking or by accident
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2.1
To learn something you did not know, often by searching or asking
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1.0
To find out about something for the first time, often by chance
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3.0
To find something while searching or by chance
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3.9
Search for and find someone or something after a lot of effort
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2.0
To take something out of the ground by digging
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3.0
Look for and find a person or thing, often with effort
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5.8
To dig in the ground to find or remove old objects, often by archaeologists
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3.4
Find and take out something that is hidden or forgotten
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6.7
To search carefully to find hidden facts or documents
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6.9
Find something after careful searching
Find something after searching carefully
To find something after a careful search
To look for something, often in books or old records
To find something without expecting it while searching
How Discovered
Surface Forms
Morphology
unearth = earth (semi-transparent) = un + earth
The investigative, figurative sense is a metaphorical extension of 'un-' + 'earth' (dig up), so learners who know 'earth' may not automatically infer the non-literal meaning.
Etymology
Unearth comes from un- ('remove') and earth ('ground' or 'soil'). So when you unearth a fact, imagine pulling it out of the ground to remember that you have discovered something hidden and brought it into the open.