Disinter

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  • transitive verb. To dig up or remove from a grave or tomb; exhume.
  • transitive verb. To bring to public notice; disclose.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To take out of a grave or out of the earth; exhume: as, to disinter a dead body.
  • To take out as if from a grave; bring from obscurity into view.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
  • transitive verb. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
  • verb. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
    • Word Usage
    "Dear friend, 'disinter' anybody or anything you please, but don't disinter _me_, unless you mean the ghost of my vexation to vex you ever after."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    bury  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dig up  excavate  turn up  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alighting  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dig  disentomb  dishume  disinhume  exhume  
    variant
    disinterred  disinterring  
    verb-form
    disinterred  disinterring  disinters  
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