Disinter

/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb.
2. (transitive, figurative) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.

Example Sentences

Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?

At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; […]

In his lectures he is equally wide-ranging and allusive, making strange links and analogies between apparently unrelated texts and ideas, and disinterring etymologies which writers cannot have been aware of.

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• disinters
• disinterring
• disinterred

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