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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disinter.

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Examples

  • In this case, 30 years after the plaintiff and defendant divorced, the defendant, without the plaintiff's knowledge, had their children's bodies disinterred from a burial plot owned jointly by the parties and had the bodies placed elsewhere.

    Third Department 2008

  • In this case, 30 years after the plaintiff and defendant divorced, the defendant, without the plaintiff's knowledge, had their children's bodies disinterred from a burial plot owned jointly by the parties and had the bodies placed elsewhere.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2008

  • In this case, 30 years after the plaintiff and defendant divorced, the defendant, without the plaintiff's knowledge, had their children's bodies disinterred from a burial plot owned jointly by the parties and had the bodies placed elsewhere.

    Statute of Limitations and Emotional Distress Claims 2008

  • In this case, 30 years after the plaintiff and defendant divorced, the defendant, without the plaintiff's knowledge, had their children's bodies disinterred from a burial plot owned jointly by the parties and had the bodies placed elsewhere.

    Personal Injury 2008

  • My father's remains were disinterred from the Ba Huyen Cemetery in Hanoi in 1974 and returned to us.

    Schmidt, Norman 1990

  • The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun.

    Animal Farm 1945

  • At that time they were disinterred from the burial place in Germany and reburied, or sent home.

    Second Generation Author Speaks Out On Cable TV 1944

  • In November 1948, the remains were again disinterred and began their slow return to the United States, where they were finally and permanently laid to rest in Minneapolis on May 26,1949 ... more than five years after he was killed.

    Robert H. Franke 1944

  • A mummy has been disinterred, which is about to be opened by the celebrated Egyptologist, Herr Professor

    The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • If Obama really wanted to get small businesses to start investing again, he could announce that both cap-and-trade and the health care bill are dead-dead and will not be disinterred this year.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Economic Stimulus 2010

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