disinter
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French désenterrer.
Pronunciation
Verb
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 bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
- 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
- Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
- 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
- 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.
Antonyms
- (take out of a grave): inter
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Translations
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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