as in to unearth
to remove from place of burial the Egyptian mummy was carefully disinterred

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Recent Examples of disinter 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 In 2000, the association began a nationwide effort to disinter and rebury the bodies. Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013 See all Example Sentences for disinter 

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“Disinter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinter. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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