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disentomb

verb as in disinter

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Weak match

verb as in exhume

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Assistants on the ground used a mechanical digger and their bare hands to disentomb Britton after they were no longer able to hear him breathing.

The diamond, we are told, is but pure carbon; and the dream of the alchymist has long been to disentomb the gem in its translucent purity from the sooty mass dug up from the coal-field.

Disentomb, dis-en-tōōm′, v.t. to take out from a tomb.

Such skeletons dwell in the hearts of most; hands need be tender that disentomb them and drag out to daylight ashes so mournful and so grievous, guarded so tenaciously, hidden so jealously.

Resuscitated monarchs disentomb Grave-reptiles with them, in their new life-throes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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