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unearthunearth /ʌnˈɚθ/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEunearth |
Present | I, you, we, they | unearth | | he, she, it | unearths | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | unearthed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have unearthed | | he, she, it | has unearthed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had unearthed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will unearth | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have unearthed |
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Present | I | am unearthing | | he, she, it | is unearthing | | you, we, they | are unearthing | Past | I, he, she, it | was unearthing | | you, we, they | were unearthing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been unearthing | | he, she, it | has been unearthing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been unearthing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be unearthing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been unearthing |
THESAURUSdiscover by searching/chance► find to see or get something, either by searching for it or by chance: I found a wallet in the parking lot. Have you found your plane ticket yet? ► discover to find something that was hidden or that people did not know about before: Some hikers discovered dinosaur bones near the river. ► locate to find the exact position of something: We couldn’t locate the source of the radio signal. ► detect to notice or discover something that is not easy to see, hear, etc.: The test can detect cancer at an early stage in the disease. ► uncover to discover something that has been kept secret or hidden: His daughter is trying to uncover the truth about his past. ► unearth to find out information or the truth about something that has been hidden for a long time: It was years before the full story was unearthed. ► track somebody/something down to find someone or something after searching in different places: Detectives finally tracked her down in California. ► trace to find someone or something that has disappeared: The police are trying to trace the person who left the baby at the hospital. ► turn something up informal to find something by searching for it thoroughly: The investigation hasn’t turned up any new evidence. ► stumble on/across (also come across) to find something by accident: Pye stumbled on the story when he was researching a book about New York in the early 1900s. 1to discover something that was hidden, lost, or kept secret SYN uncover, dig up: The surprising story was unearthed by reporters at the “Post.”► see thesaurus at find12to find something that has been buried in the ground SYN dig up: Farmers still sometimes unearth human bones here. |