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  • verb Present participle of disinter.

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Examples

  • Two young ladies, and a gentleman seeming not far from young, stood at the end of the coach to watch the success of the driver and Mr. Cowslip in disinterring sundry trunks and boxes from under the boot and a load of other trunks and boxes.

    The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

  • Forty-four years after his death, his beliefs were at the center of England's home-grown heresy, Lollardy, and the folks in power responded by disinterring Wycliff and burning his body.

    Bridget Whearty: What Medieval Times Teach Us About Respecting the Dead Bridget Whearty 2012

  • No other philosophy of the time had the capacity for disinterring and then analyzing the deeply buried contradictions and values that enabled the world's religions and ethical systems to cave in to fascism.

    G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

  • No other philosophy of the time had the capacity for disinterring and then analyzing the deeply buried contradictions and values that enabled the world's religions and ethical systems to cave in to fascism.

    G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

  • The couple were arrested at the airport while agents searched their bags fruitlessly to find spades for disinterring Monroe's corpse, and jailed for 12 hours before being flown home.

    Al Murray on the Twitter joke trial: 'Problem is, the law don't do funny' 2012

  • If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating.

    A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

  • If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating.

    A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

  • Forty-four years after his death, his beliefs were at the center of England's home-grown heresy, Lollardy, and the folks in power responded by disinterring Wycliff and burning his body.

    Bridget Whearty: What Medieval Times Teach Us About Respecting the Dead Bridget Whearty 2012

  • In the town of the orphanage, a family of gypsies arrives with the intention of disinterring the body of a cousin, which had been improperly buried and is plaguing them with fevers.

    The Practical And Fantastical Sam Sacks 2011

  • Forty-four years after his death, his beliefs were at the center of England's home-grown heresy, Lollardy, and the folks in power responded by disinterring Wycliff and burning his body.

    Bridget Whearty: What Medieval Times Teach Us About Respecting the Dead Bridget Whearty 2012

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