as in to unearth
to remove from place of burial the Egyptian mummy was carefully disinterred

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Recent Examples on the Web In 2000, the association began a nationwide effort to disinter and rebury the bodies. Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013 In early 2019, the DPAA received a request from a family to disinter the one of the eight sets of remains. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 July 2024 After more than a decade of work, the agency disinterred the rest of the unidentified caskets and transferred them to a laboratory for further forensic analysis. Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024 Human remains were disinterred from Greenlawn and reinterred as cemeteries opened in Indianapolis, though not everyone was given a new resting place. Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for disinter 

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“Disinter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinter. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

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