The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disinter \Dis`in*ter"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disinterred; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinterring.]
To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: disinter)
WordNet
v. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies [syn: exhume]
[also: disinterring, disinterred]
See disinter
Usage examples of "disinterred".
Is it not by chance that the unfortunate child was disinterred under the trees?
Workmen were now carrying the newly disinterred pieces from the ground to a table beneath the canvas.
When that fairy mansion was first disinterred from the earth they found in the garden the shell of a tortoise that had been its inmate.
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.
When the party met on the 22nd at the Potter's Field, where the body had been disinterred and laid out, the doctor present was unable to find the distinctive marks which would show Perry and Pitezel to have been the same man.
Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street opening almost directly upon the palace of the Tuileries.
As to the companions of Xisuthros, they came to Babylon, disinterred the writings left at Sippara, founded numerous cities, built temples, and restored Babylon.