disinter

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Englisch - Englisch
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view

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; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey 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.

To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up
{v} to take out of a grave
If you disinter something, you start using it again after it has not been used for a long time. the trend for disinterring sixties soul classics for TV commercials
dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
{f} exhume, unearth
When a dead body is disinterred, it is dug up from out of the ground. The bones were disinterred and moved to a burial site
Disinterred
exhumated
To disinter
disinhume
disinters
third-person singular of disinter
disinter
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