| 释义 |
unˈtomb, v.
[un-2 5.]
trans. To disentomb. Also fig.
1594Zepheria i, All in the humble accent of my Muse,..My grieues I here vntoombe. Sweete, them peruse. 1614Gorges Lucan vi. 243 The babe within the mothers wombe With gashing wound she will vntombe. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xviii. 382 The wonderfull corps of Antæus untombed a thousand years after his death by Sertorius. 1712T. Staveley Hist. Churches 271 Being advised once to untomb the bones of an enemy. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (ed. 2) II. 229 The fair Rachel has been trying to revive this genre and to untomb Racine. |