Meaning

3 senses
  1. To drive or draw from the earth.

    to unearth a fox or a badger

  2. (broadly)To dig up.

    ausgraben

  3. To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment.

    Near-synonym: discover

    to unearth a secret

    aufdecken

More definitions
  • discover by investigation
  • recover through digging

Examples

16 sentences
  1. We unearth potatoes.

    Ми викопуємо картоплю.

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  2. The police unearthed four dead bodies.

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  3. Row after row the potatoes are unearthed and collected with a hoe.

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  4. The orcs unintentionally unearthed a being of immense power, who enslaved them.

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  5. The anthropologist is piecing together pottery shards she unearthed at the excavation site.

    deDie Anthropologin fügt Keramikscherben zusammen, die sie bei der Ausgrabung zutage gefördert hat.

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Translations

6 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to dig up — see also dig up:
to uncover or find:

Origin

From un- + earth.

From un- + earth.

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Forms

unearths, unearthing, unearthed, unearthed
Base formunearth · to unearth
3rd person singularunearths
Present participleunearthing
Past simpleunearthed
Past participleunearthed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyunearth
he, she, itunearths

Past simpleLesson

all personsunearthed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave unearthed
he, she, ithas unearthed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill unearth

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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