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Unearth vs Uneath - What's the difference?

unearth | uneath |

As a verb unearth

is to drive or draw from the earth.

As an adjective uneath is

not easy; hard.

As an adverb uneath is

not easily; hardly, scarcely.

unearth

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To drive or draw from the earth.
  • To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose.
    • to unearth a secret
  • To dig up.

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    uneath

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unneth * unnethe, unnethes * unethe, unethes

    Adjective

    (head)
  • not easy; hard
  • * Spenser
    • Who he was, uneath was to descry.

    Adverb

    (head)
  • (label) Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:Who he was, uneath was to descry.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Uneath may she endure the flinty streets.
  • (label) Reluctantly, unwillingly.
  • *, Bk.VII:
  • *:Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.

    • Antonyms

    * eath * easy