Disinter

/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/

Synonyms for "disinter" (20 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Verb(1 words)
bring to lightdig updisclose

Strong matches (6)

Related words (10)

exposeferret outturn up
Verb(5 words)
revealuncoverunearthunearth a secretunearth fossils
Noun(2 words)
unbury remainsunearthing of fossils

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

5 entries

More specific

4 entries
exhume a bodyreveal evidenceuncover factunearth a corpse

Collocations

5 entries
disinter a bodydisinter a tombdisinter evidencedisinter informationdisinter the remains

Inflections

2 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?

Source: wiktionary

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; […]

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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