disinter
verb (used with object)
to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
have disinterred
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present perfectof disinter.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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When we have disinterred the body, I shall leave in the vault for the enlightenment of future generations a written story, on parchment, of the circumstances of the transfer of his remains to America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now the Shuberts have disinterred it, playing tunes as they exhibit its creaking situations.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the pages of this defunct periodical we find a long and virulent article on Benjamin D’Israeli, the late Lord Beaconsfield, from which we have disinterred the following remarkable prophecy.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt
We have disinterred it, have we not, my Clara?
From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Carl Franz van der Velde
The latest modern literature occasionally uses the Egyptian names, as the last two centuries have disinterred them from the inscriptions on the monuments, and from the manuscripts in the tombs.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
