unearth

Object

• gem: Careful exploration, however, will unearth some worthwhile shopping gems.
• skeleton: Having unearthed a human skeleton, the boys did not run screaming out of the woods, did they?
• treasure: But the ordinary digger neither hopes nor expects to unearth such treasures as these.
• secret: Working against the clock, we unearth family secrets, disembodied characters, a childhood tragedy.
• clue: Scientists unearthed several new clues to the disease through a complex, multi-step investigation.
• talent: The key is to unearth the very best talent - wherever it may be.

Preposition: on

site: In 1931, a casket, containing bones, was unearthed on the site of the Abbey Church.

Subject

archeologist: About 9000 years ago, they have left little evidence to be unearthed by archeologists.

Adjective complement

more: A DIY disaster brings together three very different women and unearths more than dry rot under the floorboards!

Modifying Another Word

• recently: Recently unearthed records have shown that he might have actually flown a plane 50 years earlier.
• finally: Only in February 2005 did an application under the freedom of information act finally unearth the allegedly " lost " document.
• far: One of the earliest pieces of teletext documentation so far unearthed for Teletext Then and Now has been contributed by Mark Cook.
• also: Some human skeletons were also unearthed, which, on being exposed to the air, crumbled to dust.
• just: In an ancient text just unearthed these variations would present no problem.
• only: All the time we have been at the front we have succeeded in unearthing only one document from the Central Committee of the Party.

Used with why or when

• which: Symbols Thousands of oracle bones have been unearthed which date back to the Shang dynasty.
• what: Of interest, during these cleaning activities he unearthed what appeared to be a bear trap wedged in a crack.

Preposition: during

• excavation: Amazingly, this skull was unearthed during the excavations for the GCR line near Brush Works.
• work: The routine business was interrupted by the arrival of a time capsule from 1891 that had been unearthed during building work.

Preposition: by

archeologist: The tiny skeleton of Flo unearthed by archeologists on an island in the Indian Ocean was only a meter high.