Definition for DIS-IN-TER'

DIS-IN-TER', v.t. [dis and inter.]

  1. To take out of a grave, or out of the earth; as, to disinter a dead body that is buried.
  2. To take out as from a grave; to bring from obscurity into view. The philosopher … may be concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred. [Unusual.] – Addison.

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