DISINTER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: disinterred , disinterring

Present simple: I / you / we / they disinter ... he / she / it disinters

Past simple: disinterred

Past participle: disinterred

-ing form: disinterring

Meaning:

Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies

Synonyms:

disinter; exhume

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "disinter" is one way to...):

dig up; excavate; turn up (find by digging in the ground)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

disinterment (the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried)