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Discover LudwigThe word 'disinter' is a legitimate word and can be used in written English.
It means to dig up or remove something that has been buried, especially a dead body. You can use 'disinter' in situations where something has been buried and is now being dug up for examination or relocation. For example, "The archaeologists were excited to disinter the ancient artifacts buried deep in the ground." This means that the archaeologists were looking forward to digging up the artifacts that had been buried for a long time. Another example could be, "The remains of the famous king were disinterred for a DNA test to confirm his identity." This means that the body of the king was dug up so that a DNA test could be conducted to confirm his identity.
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disinter
verb
To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
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We do not need to disinter Tony Blair to win, we simply need radical and green policies that bring Labour supporters to the voting booth and stop defections to other parties (including the SNP, Green and Ukip).
He began to disinter bodies, perhaps hoping to build on the site.
Nobody wrote down the unofficial songs, the jokes or the slang, and veterans find it hard to disinter them from memories overlaid with decades of official pomp and invention.
Under American pressure, Mr Sharon accepted the fact-finding team as the "least objectionable" of the options available to Israel.In Nablus, occupied for 18 days, the army redeployed to its eastern boundary, allowing 120,000 Palestinians to replenish diminishing food supplies and to disinter bodies and explosives from the casbah, where over 70 Palestinians were killed.
But the opportunity cost is enormous.Developers normally have to obtain a licence for every buried body they wish to disinter.
It was something that, before he died, I had promised my own father I would do".In this section Burying myths, uncovering truth The cost of reconstruction ReprintsThis story is just one of hundreds of tales of Francoist repression that have emerged as the result of a citizens' movement to disinter and identify victims.
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Oral testimony from Zimbabweans in key government positions during the 1980s disinters a host of killings that were previously unknown.
The third-most-common, the greater horned owl, though nocturnal, pounces from the air with such force that it would easily penetrate any crust, and thus come to a sad and sticky end entombed for millennia until the palaeo-ornithologists of the 21st century disinterred it.Correction: This article originally neglected to make clear that the cats under discussion were big cats.
The arrest of Augusto Pinochet has disinterred skeletons to haunt General Hugo Banzer Suarez, today Bolivia's elected president, but in the 1970s its military ruler.Bolivia's still incomplete conversion into a modern democracy has been a troubled one.
But all burials are now said to have been south of the border, raising the grisly possibility that long-buried human remains have been disinterred and shunted around Ireland.
He was buried at Agra, disinterred sometime between 1539 and 1544 and buried again on a green hillside with a stream running through it.
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