Disinter

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ËŒdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/

Origin

Borrowing from fr désenterrer.

Full definition of disinter

Verb

1. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
• 1870, James Thomson, Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
• 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr HydeAt 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.

Antonyms

• (take out of a grave) inter

Anagrams

• in stride
• nitrides