"disinter" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-disinter.wav [Southern-England] Forms: disinters [present, singular, third-person], disinterring [participle, present], disinterred [participle, past], disinterred [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from French désenterrer. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ters-}}, {{bor|en|fr|désenterrer}} French désenterrer Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} disinter (third-person singular simple present disinters, present participle disinterring, simple past and past participle disinterred)
  1. (transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Burial Synonyms: unbury, exhume, dig up Translations (To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up): изравям (izravjam) (Bulgarian), ексхумирам (ekshumiram) (Bulgarian), desenterrar (Catalan), kaivaa ylös (Finnish), déterrer (French), desenterrar (Galician), dessepultar (Ido), ekterigar (Ido), dí-adhlaic (Irish), esumare (Italian), jee-oanluckey (Manx), hahu (Maori), ehu (Maori), desenterrar (Portuguese), exumar (Portuguese), dezgropa (Romanian), выкапывать (vykapyvatʹ) (Russian), эксгуми́ровать (eksgumírovatʹ) (Russian), desenterrar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-disinter-en-verb-XmGxkRoR Disambiguation of Burial: 49 51 Disambiguation of 'To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up': 91 9
  2. (transitive, figurative) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. Tags: figuratively, transitive Categories (topical): Burial Translations (To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view): փորել (pʻorel) (Armenian), kaivaa esiin (Finnish), dissotterrare (Italian), desenterrar (Portuguese), откапывать (otkapyvatʹ) (Russian), отрыва́ть (otryvátʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-disinter-en-verb-~w9vtL0K Disambiguation of Burial: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 63 Disambiguation of 'To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view': 6 94

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      "word": "hahu"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "ehu"
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      "word": "dezgropa"
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      "word": "desenterrar"
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      "word": "փորել"
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      "sense": "To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view",
      "word": "desenterrar"
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      "code": "ru",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.