disinter
verb
dis·in·ter
ˌdis-in-ˈtər 
disinterred; disinterring; disinters
1
: to take out of the grave or tomb
2
: to bring back into awareness or prominence
also
: to bring to light : unearth
Examples of disinter in a Sentence
The body was disinterred for further study.
the Egyptian mummy was carefully disinterred
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Before Orion could disinter his fawn, though, he’d been run off by a bear.
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Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The Department of Defense had undertaken the arduous task of disinterring and sorting through the commingled skeletons.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
The first burials were disinterred from local battlefields and reinterred in the Fayetteville National Cemetery.
—arkansasonline.com, 14 Sep. 2024
Salem said 15 to 20 of them have been disinterred — some after troops destroyed cemeteries and others moved by relatives out of fear Israeli forces would destroy their graves.
—Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
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Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
The Department of Defense had undertaken the arduous task of disinterring and sorting through the commingled skeletons.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
The first burials were disinterred from local battlefields and reinterred in the Fayetteville National Cemetery.
—arkansasonline.com, 14 Sep. 2024
Salem said 15 to 20 of them have been disinterred — some after troops destroyed cemeteries and others moved by relatives out of fear Israeli forces would destroy their graves.
—Julia Frankel and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for disinter
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disinter
verb
dis·in·ter
ˌdis-ᵊn-ˈtər
1
: to take out of the grave or tomb
2
: to bring back into awareness : unearth
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