disinter
verb (used with object)
to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
disinters
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present tense formof disinter (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Back at Sayyida Nafisa cemetery, Iman remains distraught as she disinters her relatives.
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
What is also apparent is that Glam! disinters a past that has never been buried.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2013
What kind of ideological ghoul disinters the dead and uses them for purposes they did not believe in while they lived?
From Time Magazine Archive
Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past."
From Time Magazine Archive
Poetry elevates some of our emotions, disinters others from the rubbish of the world, heightens what is mean, transforms what is unsightly, Clothing the palpable and the familiar With golden exhalations of the dawn.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by William Chambers
