Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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.
Wiktionary
- v. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
- v. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
- v. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
WordNet 3.0
- v. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Yon, who is also a veteran, contacted Carriage Services and said the company agreed to disinter”
“It is time to disinter the facts and thus destroy once and for all The Big State.”
“Developers wanted to disinter all the remains and move them to another cemetery to make way for the parking lot.”
The Washington Post: Answer Man: A Starbucks, a Safeway - and a cemetery
“Two major local Tea Party leaders, Chuck Pinkey and Jim Losie, who said the issue has nothing to do with the Tea Party, and personally repudiated Mr. McCarthy's original determination to disinter the two graves.”
“Chefs and proprietors would contemplate for hours their allotted six lines of prose to disinter any hint of a value judgment.”
“Meanwhile, cemetery officials are scheduled Wednesday morning to disinter the remains of a third person, Marine Pfc. Heath Warner, whose family members became worried that he was buried in the wrong spot after finding inaccuracies in his burial paperwork.”
The Washington Post: 2 bodies found in wrong plots at Arlington cemetery
“Arlington National Cemetery officials Wednesday morning are scheduled to disinter the remains of a Marine killed in Iraq after his family raised concerns that he might be buried in the wrong plot, an Army spokesman confirmed.”
The Washington Post: Arlington Cemetery to exhume Marine's remains after family questions grave site
“Through all of this, Denzil stood in the forecastle and watched, perfectly playing the role of the disinter - ested stranger.”
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