Pronunciations (2)
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/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
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ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)
Verb
To take out of the grave or tomb.
Usage- Transitive
- Antonyms
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
Usage- Figurative
- Transitive
- Examples
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Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
More examples (2)
At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; […]
In his lectures he is equally wide-ranging and allusive, making strange links and analogies between apparently unrelated texts and ideas, and disinterring etymologies which writers cannot have been aware of.
Verb
dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
- Synonyms