Disinter

Definition: Disinter

Disinter

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disinter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Note: Disinter \Dis`in*ter"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Disinterred; present participle verb or noun Disinterring.]. (references)

Synonym: Disinter

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Interment

Exhume, disinter, unearth.

Crosswords: Disinter

Books

• Shakespeare's bones : the proposal to disinter them, considered in relation to their possible bearing on his portraiture : illustrated by instances of visits of the living to the dead (reference)

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Albanian

zhvarros (exhume), zhgropos (unearth), zbuloj (bare, belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), nxjerr në dritë (procreate, unearth). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خرج من القبر, ‏برز إلى النور (dig). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, divulge, elicit, expose, find out, manifest, penetrate, show, smell out, spill, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unkennel, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), откривам (bare, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, espy, expose, find, find out, inaugurate, initiate, lay bare, lay open, lead off, locate, open, pick out, pry out, recover, reopen, reveal, rout out, rout up, run down, spot, strike, unclose, uncover, unearth, unveil), изравям (dig out, dig up, exhume, hunt out, rake out, rake up, resurrect, root out, root up, scrape out, scratch out, scratch up, unearth), изкопавам (dig, excavate, grub, mine, quarry, sink, turn up, unearth). (various references)

Czech

exhumovat (disentomb, exhume, unearth). (various references)

Farsi 

نبش کردن , ازخاک دراوردن (Excavate, Exhume), ازبوته فراموشی یاگمنامی دراوردن . (various references)

Finnish

kaivaa (burrow, cut, delve, dig, dig out, drive, excavate, exhume, grub, pick, spade). (various references)

French

déterrer (dig, dig out, dig up, din into), exhumer. (various references)

German

exhumieren (exhume). (various references)

Greek 

ξεθάβω (dig up, exhume, unearth), εκθάπτω (exhume, unearth). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וציא מקבר (exhume). (various references)

Hungarian

napfényre hoz (bring to light, to delve out, to delve up), exhumál (disentomb, exhume, to disinter, to resurrect, unearth). (various references)

Indonesian

menggali (dig, excavate, exhume, see: gali). (various references)

Italian

dissotterrare (unearth), esumare (disentomb, exhume). (various references)

Manx

troggal ass yn oaye, jee-oanluckey (disinterment, exhumation, exhume), cleiy neese. (various references)

Pig Latin

isinterday.(various references)

Portuguese

desenterrar (dig, dig up, disentomb, grub, hunt out, unearth), exumar (disentomb, exhume, resurrect, unearth). (various references)

Romanian

dezgropa (dig up, disentomb, excavate, exhume, resurrect, unearth), exhuma (disentomb, exhume, resurrect, unearth). (various references)

Russian 

выкапывать из могилы (disentomb), выкапывать (dig from, dig out, excavate, exhume, grub, rout), отрывать (break away, pick off, rend, tear, tear away), откапывать (disentomb, rake up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

iskopati iz groba. (various references)

Spanish

desenterrar (dig up, grub up, turn up, unearth), descubrir a (bare, disembosom, find, sight). (various references)

Swedish

ta upp ur graven (disentomb), gräva upp (dig up, disentomb, excavate, exhume, grub, unearth), gräva fram (dig out, disentomb, exhume, rout out). (various references)

Turkish

topraktan çıkarmak (disentomb, lift, unearth), mezardan çıkarmak (disentomb, exhume), kazmak (cave, cave in, dig, excavate, grub, hole, hollow, hollow out, mine, pick, pick up, sink, spud, trench), eşelemek (dredge up, forage, grub, grub up, root, rout, scratch about). (various references)

Ukrainian

відривати (avulse, break away, pull away, tear away, tear off). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "disinter": disinterest, disinterested, disinterestedly, disinterestedness, disinterestednesses, disinteresting, disinterests, disintermediation, disintermediations, disinterment, disinterments, disinterred, disinterring, disinters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Disinter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bissinger, Daintree, desenter, Dhimiter, Dikshitar, Dimiter, Dinistan, Dipinti, disater, disine, distinti, Dysinger, teosinte. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: inditers, nitrides.

-1 letter: dirties, ditsier, inditer, indites, insider, nitride, nitrids, tidiers, tinders, tineids.

-2 letters: diners, direst, driest, estrin, indies, indite, indris, inerts, insert, inside, inters, irides, irised, niters, nitres, nitrid, rident, rinsed, seniti, sinter, snider, stride, teiids, teinds, tidier, tidies, tinder, tineid, tinier, trends, triens, trined, trines.

-3 letters: deist, dents, diets, diner, dines, dints, dirts, dites.

+1 letter: dirtiness, disinters, disorient, indicters, reindicts, retinoids.

+2 letters: administer, banditries, bestriding, detritions, dicentrics, directions, discretion, disinherit, disorients, disserting, distincter, distrained, distrainer, eruditions, indiscreet, industries, inspirited, interdicts, iridescent, ironfisted, irridentas, midwinters, ministered, misprinted, mistrained, neuritides, perditions, pinstriped, pteridines, punditries, reeditions, renditions, rhinitides, springtide.

+3 letters: administers, advertising, denitrifies, dentifrices, dentistries, derivations, description, determinism, determinist, dignitaries, dinnertimes, dirtinesses, discretions, disheriting, disinherits, disinterest, disinterred, disoriented, disrelation, distrainers, distressing, drivetrains, enteritides, friendliest, identifiers, ingredients, interisland, intermedins, irredentism, irredentist, miniskirted, misinterred, misoriented, modernistic, modernities, nephritides, ordinariest, predictions, rancidities, redigesting, redigestion, redshirting, residential, retinitides, rotundities, scrutinised, scrutinized, serendipity, springtides, stipendiary, stridencies, tyrocidines, vineyardist, viridescent, wintertides.