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disinter verb [ ˌdɪsɪnˈtəː ]

• dig up (something that has been buried, especially a corpse).
• "his corpse was disinterred and dumped in a pit"
Similar: exhume, unearth, dig up, bring out of the ground, bring to the surface, disentomb, unbury, ungrave,
Origin: early 17th century: from French désenterrer, from dis- (expressing reversal) + enterrer ‘to inter’.


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