Disinter

//ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)//

Synonyms for "disinter" (16 found)

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Closest matches (4)

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Related words (8)

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Translations

27 translations across 16 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • փորել verb (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • ексхумирам verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)
  • изравям verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Catalan

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  • desenterrar verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kaivaa esiin verb (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view)
  • kaivaa ylös verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

French

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  • déterrer verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Galician

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  • desenterrar verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Hawaiian

1 entries
  • huaʻi verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Ido

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  • dessepultar verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)
  • ekterigar verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Irish

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  • dí-adhlaic verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Italian

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  • dissotterrare verb (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view)
  • esumare verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Manx

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  • jee-oanluckey verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Māori

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  • ehu verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)
  • hahu verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)
  • huaki verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • desenterrar verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)
  • desenterrar verb (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view)
  • exumar verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Romanian

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  • dezgropa verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Russian

4 entries
  • выкапывать verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)
  • откапывать verb (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view)
  • отрыва́ть verb (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view)
  • эксгуми́ровать verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Spanish

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  • desenterrar verb (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up)

Sample sentences

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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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