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disinter
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English
WOTD – 18 July 2012, 18 July 2013, 18 July 2014, 18 July 2015
Etymology
Borrowed from French désenterrer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
disinter (third-person singular simple present disinters, present participle disinterring, simple past and past participle disinterred)
- (transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
- 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
- Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
- 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 42:
- 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; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray 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; […]
- 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- In his lectures he is equally wide-ranging and allusive, making strange links and analogies between apparently unrelated texts and ideas, and disinterring etymologies which writers cannot have been aware of.
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Translations
To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up
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To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view
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