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    unearth
    un‧earth /ʌnˈɜːθ $ -ˈɜːrθ/ verb [transitive]
     Word Family: noun: earth, earthling, earthiness; adjective: earthy, earthly ≠ unearthly, earthen; verb: unearth; adverb: earthward(s)
    1. to find something after searching for it, especially something that has been buried in the ground or lost for a long time:
        Farmers still sometimes unearth human bones here.
        In one shop, I unearthed a wonderful collection of 1920s toys.
    2. to find information or the truth about something or someone
       SYN  dig up:
        The inquiry unearthed some disturbing evidence.
         
    THESAURUS
       ▪ find to get or see something that you have been searching for: Have you found your passport yet? | Police later found the car abandoned in a wood.
       ▪ discover to find something that was hidden or that people did not know about before: A second bomb has been discovered in south London.
       ▪ locate formal to find the exact position of something: The airline are still trying to locate my luggage. | Online maps make it easy to locate almost any place in the world.
       ▪ come across something to find something unexpectedly when you are not looking for it: I came across some old letters from my father in my drawer.
       ▪ stumble on/across something to find something unexpectedly, especially something very important: They may have stumbled across some vital evidence. | Completely by chance we had stumbled on the biggest hit of the year.
       ▪ trace to find someone or something that has disappeared, especially by a careful process of collecting information: She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.
       ▪ track somebody/something down to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching in different places: I’ve been trying to track down a book that’s out of print. | The police managed to track down the killer.
       ▪ unearth to find something that has been hidden or lost for a long time, by digging or searching for it: In 1796, a carved stone was unearthed near the burial mound.