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Examples of disinter
disinter
If the Old Bill are going to disinter Savile, they will have to move quickly.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Yesterday, the gravediggers who came to disinter him slipped in under cover of darkness.
From the guardian.co.uk
Why unseal the family tomb and disinter one's venerated but largely forgotten great grandpa?
From the washingtontimes.com
Rarely do police disinter a suspect in unsolved crimes, especially crimes dating back more than three decades.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Ms Clarke's fight to disinter the remains was upheld by the High Court and Court of Appeal based on her rights as executor and spouse.
From the nzherald.co.nz
In order finally to put his father to rest with forgiveness and love, he must first disinter the scoundrel, who died in 1975.
From the time.com
However, she convinces the municipal government to disinter Mr. Springfield's body to search for evidence of a legendary silver tongue.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Upon his return there last December, Lomong took part in another ceremony to disinter the symbols, effectively bringing him back to life.
From the philly.com
In the 1980s, when the local cemetery began burying blacks alongside whites, Wilson became so incensed he threatened to disinter the bodies of his parents.
From the ocregister.com
Rake-thin in a black suit and big shades tonight, Jones looks like a groovy undertaker only too pleased to disinter his second most influential band.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
- Burial (as in berry, or), also called interment and inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.
- To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up; To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view
- (disintering) Common misspelling of disinterring
- (disinterred) to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth
- Also Exhume. To dig up the remains from the burial place. This may occur when a family wishes to re-bury the remains in a family plot or move them to another cemetery.
- (v) to dig up (unearth); exhume
- Dig up from the earth
