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. (present participle of disinter English)
WordNet
v. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies [syn: exhume]
[also: disinterring, disinterred]
See disinter
Usage examples of "disinterring".
The two policemen who constituted the civil force of Gylingden, two justices of the peace, the doctor, and a crowd of amateurs, among whom I rank myself, were grouped in the dismal gorge, a little to windward of the dead body, which fate had brought to light, while three men were now employed in cautiously disinterring it.
Over the past few hours we've been disinterring bodies from the backyard on his mother's place upstate.