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Definition: Unearth |
UnearthVerb1. Bring to light; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President". 2. Lay bare through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unearth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Note: Unearth \Un*earth"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Unearthed; present participle verb or noun Unearthing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: UnearthSynonym: excavate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discovery | Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter. |
Ejection | Embowel, disbowel, disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out, root up; averuncate; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away with, shake off; exenterate. |
Inquiry | Look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned. |
Interment | Exhume, disinter, unearth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unearth |
| English words defined with "unearth": Unburrow, Unearthed, Unearthing. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A bulldozer begins to unearth the dam for preliminary site testing purposes. The testing was conducted to determine if contaminants that could leach in to the river were present and to assess the likelihood of uncovering any historical artifacts. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Unearth" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.37% of the time. "Unearth" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85.37% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.63% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unearth | 141 |
lyrics unearth | 20 |
tab unearth | 13 |
band unearth | 10 |
guitar tab unearth | 7 |
music unearth | 3 |
discography unearth | 3 |
mp3 unearth | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unearth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zhgropos (disinter), zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unlock, unveil), nxjerr nga strofull, nxjerr në dritë (disinter, procreate), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, utter, vomit, whiffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كشف (bare, bring to light, detect, disclose, disclosure, discover, divulge, expose, exposure, find out, lay bare, lay open, lift, make known, open, remove, reveal, revelation, show up, take off, uncover, unfold, unveil), خرج من الأرض, إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, figure out, find, find out, get wind of, glean, hit, learn, nose, rout, rummage, search, spot, strike, uncover). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отравям (blight, embitter, empoison, envenom, intoxicate, poison), откривам (bare, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, espy, expose, find, find out, inaugurate, initiate, lay bare, lay open, lead off, locate, open, pick out, pry out, recover, reopen, reveal, rout out, rout up, run down, spot, strike, unclose, uncover, unveil), изравям (dig out, dig up, disinter, exhume, hunt out, rake out, rake up, resurrect, root out, root up, scrape out, scratch out, scratch up), изривам (excavate, shovel out, turn up), изкопавам (dig, disinter, excavate, grub, mine, quarry, sink, turn up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 发掘 (Unearthing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vykopat ze zemì, vyhrabat (dig out, dig up, drag up, grub up, hunt out, rake out), přijít na (come, hit, think up), odhalit (be on to smb., bring out, detect, disclose, expose, find out, reveal, show smb. up, show up, spy out, unbosom, uncloak, uncover, unfold, unlock, unmask, unveil), objevit (detect, discover, find, recover, spot, spring, spy out), exhumovat (disentomb, disinter, exhume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حفاری کردن (Excavate), افتابی کردن , ازلانه بیرون کردن , اززیرخاک دراوردن , اززیردراوردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déterrer, dénicher (undeck), découvrir (uncover, understand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausgraben (bring up, dig, dig out, dig up, excavate, lift, pull up, root up, to excavate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξετρυπώνω (dig out, ferret), εκθάπτω (disinter, exhume). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לחשוף (debunk, denude, detect, expose, uncover, unveil), לחפור (break ground, dig, excavate, grub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felfedez (discover, espy, to detect, to discover, to observe, to pioneer, to unearth, to unfold), exhumál (disentomb, disinter, exhume, to disinter, to resurrect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gali (delve, dig, dig up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scovare (discover, drive out, find, flush out, put up), scoprire (ascertain, bare, detect, disclose, discover, expose, find, find out, reveal, rumble, strike, to detect, uncover, undeck), portare alla luce, dissotterrare (disinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goaill neese veih thalloo, cur lesh gys y toilshey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earthunay trazer luz, fazer sair da toca (unkennel), exumar (disequilibrium, disinterest, exhumed, resurrect), desenterrar (dig, dig up, disentomb, disinter, grub, hunt up), descobrir (ascertain, bare, bewray, denudate, denude, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, elide, espy, find, find out, get out, hunt out, hunt up, identify, lay out, lay up bare, open, pioneer, poke about, publicize, reveal, see, show up, spell out, strike, surprise, to discover, uncap, uncloak, unclose, uncover, unkennel, unmask, unveil). (various references) scoate la ivealã (bring to light, evolve, lay open), scoate din vizuinã, exhuma (disentomb, disinter, exhume, resurrect), dezgropa (dig up, disentomb, disinter, excavate, exhume, resurrect), descoperi (crack, descry, detect, disclose, discover, ferret, find out, fish, grub, hit, invent, lay open, nose out, open, reveal, rip, spy, strike, uncover, unravel). (various references) раскапывать (break ground), вырывать из земли, выгонять из норы. (various references) otkriti (bare, descry, detect, disclose, discover, divulge, dog down, expose, expose smb., let out, reveal, turn up, uncloak, uncover, unfold), obelodaniti (detect, disbosom, disclose, reveal, uncase, uncloak), iskopati (dig out, dig up, drag up, dredge, excavate, grub, plant out). (various references) desenterrar (dig up, disinter, grub up, turn up). (various references) gräva upp (dig up, disentomb, disinter, excavate, exhume, grub). (various references) topraktan çıkarmak (disentomb, disinter, lift), ortaya çıkarmak (bring into the open, bring out, bring to light, bring to pass, conceive, detect, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, get at, hit off, lay bare, pick out, search out, show up, sift out, smoke out, throw into relief, uncloak, uncover, unveil), deliğinden çıkarmak. (various references) розкривати (accuse, bare, disclose, let on, open, open out, unclothe, uncover, unfold), викопувати із землі, виганяти з нори. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unearth": unearthed, unearthing, unearthliness, unearthlinesses, unearthly, unearths. (additional references) | |
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"Unearth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dunderth, Dungarth, ennorath, unearthy, unipath, unneat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: haunter, urethan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: anther, hunter, nature, thenar. | |
-2 letters: antre, earth, hater, haunt, haute, heart, neath, rathe, thane, tuner, unhat, urate. | |
-3 letters: ante, aunt, earn, eath, etna, haen, haet, hant, hare, hart, hate, haut, hear, heat, hent, hern, hunt, hurt, near, neat, rant, rate, rath, rent, rhea, rune, runt, ruth, tahr, tare, tarn, tear, tern, thae, than. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: chaunter, earthnut, haunters, unearths, unthread, urethane, urethans. | |
+2 letters: chaunters, earthnuts, eutherian, heartburn, naughtier, stauncher, sunbather, uncharted, unearthed, unearthly, unthreads, unwreathe, urethanes. | |
+3 letters: antihunter, earthbound, euphoriant, eutherians, headhunter, heartburns, housetrain, neuropathy, outhearing, raunchiest, subtrahend, sunbathers, underneath, unearthing, unfathered, unthreaded, unwreathed, unwreathes. | |
+4 letters: antheridium, draughtsmen, dreadnought, euchromatin, euphoriants, furtherance, headhunters, heteroauxin, hindquarter, houseparent, housetrains, neuropathic, outreaching, subtrahends, thankfuller, thunderclap, thunderhead, unchartered, unharvested, unhealthier, unseaworthy, untarnished, unthreading, unweathered, unwreathing, upgathering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 65 61 72 74 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. . .- .-. - .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n e a r t h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0065 0061 0072 0074 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807167848674 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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