UNEARTHED Synonyms: 7 Similar and Opposite Words

unearthed

verb

past tense of unearth

as in exhumed

to remove from place of burial unearthed a hoard of treasures from the Egyptian tomb

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Recent Examples of unearthed The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) unearthed an illicit operation to sell a massive trove of Nike, Adidas and Fear of God apparel and footwear dupes. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026 The remains were unearthed from 324-million-year-old Late Mississippian deposits in the Tesnus Formation of western Texas. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026 The extent of his former client list was unearthed through whispers and gossip. — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 Then there’s the library mantel Burnett unearthed, its twin nooks now unassumingly holding the couple’s Oscars. — Caroline Randall Williams, Architectural Digest, 27 Aug. 2026 An 11,000-year-old statue depicting a person on the back of a leopard was unearthed by archaeologists at a Stone Age site in southern Turkey, the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced in a statement on August 25. — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026 The track won't be unearthed until 2045, when Parton would have been 99. — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 All of them said that the documents raised major concerns about Towers’ conduct as a researcher and that the journal’s response didn’t do enough to address the issues the university unearthed. — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2026 In July 2025, utility workers excavating trenches to expand an underground gas network in Peru's capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs that were over 1,000 years old. — CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

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exhumed

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On July 9, 1850, President Zachary Taylor became the second president to die in the White House, and the only president to have been exhumed for investigation more than a century after his death.

— Sophie Clausen, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026
Five-year-old Tina Carter waited patiently with her mother Diana in a long line to carefully print her first name on a timecapsule scroll to be exhumed in 2076.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026

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