disinter

English

WOTD – 18 July 2012

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/

Verb

disinter (third-person singular simple present disinters, present participle disinterring, simple past and past participle disinterred)

To take out of the grave or tomb.
Synonyms: unbury, exhume, dig up
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, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
  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.

Antonyms

(take out of a grave): inter

Related terms

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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/disinter' title='disinter'>disinter</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/extraterrestrial' title='extraterrestrial'>extraterrestrial</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/inter' title='inter'>inter</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/Mediterranean' title='Mediterranean'>Mediterranean</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/Newfoundland' title='Newfoundland'>Newfoundland</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/reinter' title='reinter'>reinter</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/subterranean' title='subterranean'>subterranean</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/subterrestrial' title='subterrestrial'>subterrestrial</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/superterrestrial' title='superterrestrial'>superterrestrial</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terra' title='terra'>terra</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/Terra' title='Terra'>Terra</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terra_firma' title='terra firma'>terra firma</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terrace' title='terrace'>terrace</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terracotta' title='terracotta'>terracotta</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terrain' title='terrain'>terrain</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/Terran' title='Terran'>Terran</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terrane' title='terrane'>terrane</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terranean' title='terranean'>terranean</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terrene' title='terrene'>terrene</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terrestrial' title='terrestrial'>terrestrial</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terrier' title='terrier'>terrier</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/territorial' title='territorial'>territorial</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/territory' title='territory'>territory</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/terroir' title='terroir'>terroir</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/thirst' title='thirst'>thirst</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/toast' title='toast'>toast</a>

Translations

To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up

Bulgarian: изравям (bg) (izravjam), ексхумирам (ekshumiram)
Catalan: desenterrar (ca)
Finnish: kaivaa ylös
Galician: desenterrar (gl)
Ido: dessepultar (io), ekterigar (io)
Irish: dí-adhlaic
Italian: esumare (it)

Manx: jee-oanluckey
Maori: hahu, ehu
Portuguese: desenterrar (pt), exumar (pt)
Romanian: dezgropa (ro)
Russian: выкапывать (ru) (vykapyvatʹ), эксгуми́ровать (ru) (eksgumírovatʹ)
Spanish: desenterrar (es)

To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view

Armenian: փորել (hy) (pʿorel)
Finnish: kaivaa esiin
Italian: dissotterrare (it)

Portuguese: desenterrar (pt)
Russian: откапывать (ru) (otkapyvatʹ), отрыва́ть (ru) (otryvátʹ)

Anagrams

in stride, inditers, neritids, nitrides

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