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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To remove from or as if from a tomb.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To take out of a tomb; disinter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To take out from a tomb; a disinter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To remove from a tomb.

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  • Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for the phrase "Explain fully and quickly cause of delay". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.

    January 22, 2013