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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disinter .
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Examples
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In one of the adroitly deployed subplots, he disinters a family secret that reconciles an estranged mother and daughter.
Tonight's TV highlights Ali Catterall 2010
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Along with the bones, Mackey disinters half a lifetime's personal baggage particularly when he finds himself once again dealing with the bickering, resentful, sometimes violent family he left behind.
Cityside Thrillers 2010
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These "emphatic" disinters prefer, instead, to lurk anonymously and cowardly within the confines of the internet.
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In these straits, Poe wrote “Berenice,” a story about a man who disinters his dead lover and yanks out all her teeth—“the white and glistening, and ghastly teeth of Berenice”—only to realize that she is still alive.
Edgar All Poe Ed Gorman 2009
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Fittingly, he disinters both Mirah and his mother, reburying them "in Christian sod" 74.
Religion 2009
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As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized.
The Thirteenth Tale: Summary and book reviews of The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. 2006
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The next time dad disinters his last meal make sure you get pictures of the event.
How Athena is Spending Her Last Day of Christmas Break « Whatever 2008
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He regularly disinters ads of the past on his blog to show how American social attitudes have dramatically changed.
Civil liberties 2007
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Does not Hart's description, despite its incompleteness, work as well as it does precisely because it disinters some elementary justifications conceived and put to use by the people whose activities provide the material for the descriptions?
Natural Law Theories Finnis, John 2007
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Papers and political disinters (ph) being silenced by police.
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