Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth or the grave, literally or figuratively; exhumation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
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- noun The act of
disinterring .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The disinterment is a very painful process," Chávez said.
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So she hired an attorney to handle the legalities of disinterment and sent remains from the mausoleum to a lab in
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Cemetery for a formal disinterment ceremony on April
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"When I heard the first disinterment was not positive it gave me a sick feeling," Scott Warner said.
Marine's body exhumed, positively identified after errors revealed at Arlington 2010
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So I go to a disinterment of a couple of murder victims on the dusty outskirts of town.
Phil Bronstein: Robert Novak, the Prince of Darkness for better or worse... Phil Bronstein 2010
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So I go to a disinterment of a couple of murder victims on the dusty outskirts of town.
Phil Bronstein: Robert Novak, the Prince of Darkness for better or worse... 2010
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So I go to a disinterment of a couple of murder victims on the dusty outskirts of town.
Robert Novak, the Prince of Darkness for better or worse... 2010
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"When I heard the first disinterment was not positive it gave me a sick feeling," Scott Warner said.
Marine's body exhumed, positively identified after errors revealed at Arlington 2010
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The lifeless form was hastily conveyed under ground where had been the circus ring and where the chances of discovery and disinterment were remote.
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The lifeless form was hastily conveyed under ground where had been the circus ring and where the chances of discovery and disinterment were remote.
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