ungrave

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ grave.

Verb

ungrave (third-person singular simple present ungraves, present participle ungraving, simple past and past participle ungraved)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To raise or remove from the grave.

   Synonym: see at disentomb

   Hypernyms: unearth, dig up

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     I scorn to ungrave thy dust

References

• “ungrave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.