"disinter" meaning in English

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Verb

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: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Middle French des- French dés- French enterrer French désenterrerbor. English disinter Borrowed from French désenterrer. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:bor|fr:désenterrer|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Middle French des- French dés- French enterrer French désenterrerbor. English disinter [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "dis-", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "dis-", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "apart", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*d(w)is-", "gloss" : "in two, apart", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "two", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dwóh₁", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*dwís", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*dis-", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "dis-", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "des-", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle French", "term" : "des-", "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "dés-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "enterrer", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "fr" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "désenterrer", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "disinter", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="disinter"> Borrowed from 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 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), huaʻi (Hawaiian), dessepultar (Ido), ekterigar (Ido), dí-adhlaic (Irish), esumare (Italian), jee-oanluckey (Manx), huaki (Māori), hahu (Māori), ehu (Māori), desenterrar (Portuguese), exumar (Portuguese), dezgropa (Romanian), выкапывать (vykapyvatʹ) (Russian), эксгуми́ровать (eksgumírovatʹ) (Russian), desenterrar (Spanish)
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  2. (transitive, figurative) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. Tags: figuratively, transitive 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 Categories (other): English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: disinterment

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Alternative forms

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          "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
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          "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
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          "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
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          "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
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          "text": "At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; […]",
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          "text": "Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?",
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          "text": "At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; […]",
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      "roman": "izravjam",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "изравям"
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      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
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      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "desenterrar"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "kaivaa ylös"
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      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "déterrer"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "desenterrar"
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      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "lang_code": "haw",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "huaʻi"
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "lang_code": "io",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "dessepultar"
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "lang_code": "io",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "ekterigar"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "dí-adhlaic"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "esumare"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "lang_code": "gv",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "jee-oanluckey"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "huaki"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "hahu"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "ehu"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "desenterrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "exumar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "dezgropa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "vykapyvatʹ",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "выкапывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "eksgumírovatʹ",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "эксгуми́ровать"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up",
      "word": "desenterrar"
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "lang_code": "hy",
      "roman": "pʻorel",
      "sense": "To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view",
      "word": "փորել"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view",
      "word": "kaivaa esiin"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view",
      "word": "dissotterrare"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "lang_code": "pt",
      "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",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "roman": "otkapyvatʹ",
      "sense": "To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view",
      "word": "откапывать"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "otryvátʹ",
      "sense": "To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view",
      "word": "отрыва́ть"
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  "word": "disinter"
}

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