Dictionary

disinter en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Middle French des- French dés- French enterrer French désenterrerbor. English disinter Borrowed from French désenterrer.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
   • Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden? 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
   • 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. 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • 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; […] 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:

Forms

Antonyms

inter

Deriveds

disinterment

Synonyms

dig up · unbury · exhume

Translations (27)

pt exumar (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · es desenterrar (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · ga dí-adhlaic (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · bg изравям (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · haw huaʻi (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · ru отрыва́ть (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view) · bg ексхумирам (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · fi kaivaa esiin (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view) · ru эксгуми́ровать (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · it esumare (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · it dissotterrare (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view) · ru откапывать (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view) · hy փորել (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view) · io ekterigar (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · gv jee-oanluckey (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · ca desenterrar (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · ru выкапывать (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · ro dezgropa (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · mi hahu (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · fr déterrer (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · fi kaivaa ylös (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · gl desenterrar (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · mi ehu (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · pt desenterrar (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · mi huaki (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · io dessepultar (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up) · pt desenterrar (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view)