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disinter
/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
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What does disinter mean?
verb
- To take out of the grave or tomb.
- (figuratively) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
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That threatened to spoil the visit for Mary and even to disinter the hatchet!
As often happens, when such refusals are made, the practitioners resolved to disinter the body and dissect it at leisure, in private.
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Implements for digging and clearing away the ruins were entirely wanting; and the people were obliged to use their bare hands, to disinter the living.
After breakfast the dogs found another cutia, which was hidden in its burrow two or three feet beneath the roots of a large tree, and it took Raimundo nearly an hour to disinter it.
The blue-fly, buried in the depth of the sand, "cracks its barrel-shaped coffin," and splits its mask, in order to disinter itself; the head divides into two halves, between which we see emerging and disappearing by turns a monstrous tumour, which comes and goes, swells and shrivels, palpitates, labours, lunges, and retires, thus compressing and gradually undermining the sand, until at last the newborn fly emerges from the depth of the catacombs.