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    DISINTER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected forms: disinterred  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, disinterring  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they disinter  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it disinters  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: disinterred  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: disinterred  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: disinterring  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodiesplay

    Synonyms:

    disinter; exhume

    Classified under:

    Verbs of political and social activities and events

    Hypernyms (to "disinter" is one way to...):

    dig up; excavate; turn up (find by digging in the ground)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

    disinterment (the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried)

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