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disinterred
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What does disinterred mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of disinter
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The Eucharistic Congress had doubtless sucked out of their local stagnation many such creatures, blind and helpless, like moles disinterred.
When the fort was abandoned a few years ago, their bodies were disinterred and removed to the National cemetery at Washington.
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It was then arranged that all the parties should meet again next day to identify, if possible, the body, which had been disinterred for that purpose.
If a strict watch had not been kept over his grave for months, the body would have been disinterred, and the bones carried away as memorials.
Moritz gives the instance of a woman dying in pregnancy, undelivered, who happened to be disinterred several days after burial.