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untombs

untombs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of untomb.

Meaning of untomb

Verb

untomb (third-person singular simple present untombs, present participle untombing, simple past and past participle untombed)

  1. (transitive) To take (something, especially a body) from a tomb.
    • [P]erchance the Turks are minded as John King of England was, who being wiſhed by a Courtier to untombe the bones of one who whileſt he was living had been his great enemy, Oh no, ſaid King John, would all mine enemies were as honourably buried.1639, Thomas Fuller, “Godfreys Death and Buriall”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John...
  2. to reveal (something hidden)

Questions about untombs

What is untombs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Untombs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of untomb.

Words near untombs in the dictionary

  1. untolled
  2. untomb
  3. untombed
  4. untombing
  5. untomboyish
  6. untombs
  7. untoned
  8. untongue
  9. untongued
  10. untongues
  11. untonguing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untombs (page history and authors); untomb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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