disinter
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Adapted from French désenterrer.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /dɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
Verb [edit]
disinter (third-person singular simple present disinters, present participle disinterring, simple past and past participle disinterred)
- To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
- To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- 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; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey 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.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Antonyms [edit]
- (take out of a grave): inter
Translations [edit]
To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up
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To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view
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