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third-person singular simple present disinters, present participle disinterring, simple past and past participle disinterred
To take out of the grave or tomb. examples
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. quotations examples
Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
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.
1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.