Disinter
[,dɪsɪn'tɜː] or [,dɪsɪn'tɝ]
Definition
(verb.) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies.
Typist: Wanda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
(v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
Edited by Hilda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Exhume, unbury, disentomb, dig up.
Edited by Jeanne
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INTER]
Checker: Nathan
Definition
v.t. to take out of a grave: to bring from obscurity into view.—n. Disinter′ment.
Edited by Angelina
Examples
- The _Gigantosaurus_, disinterred by a German expedition in 1912 from rocks in East Africa, was still more colossal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They see the long-buried prisoner disinterred, a maniac or an idiot! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- All these early chapters of our story have yet to be disinterred. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Susie