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Meanings of disinterment in anglès

portuguès
exumação
català
exhumació

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

        exhumació
        Usage of disinterment in anglès
        1
        First rule in a disinterment: Make sure you've got the right guy.
        Devil Bones
        2
        But I think I have found the suggestion of this action of Heathcliff's-thedisinterment.
        Hearts of Controversy
        3
        Ponder the disinterment of Dr Who a decade ago.
        The Irish Times
        4
        Shortly after the disinterment, Abel said she was bankrupt.
        The Guardian
        5
        But there aren't many companies whose entire oeuvre is worthy of disinterment for a lengthy festival.
        The Irish Times
        6
        The recently fractured surfaces show that the skull was broken at the time of its disinterment.
        Lectures and Essays
        7
        If there was to be a disinterment, I knew Hubert would want me to direct it.
        206 Bones
        8
        From more recent times, we get a very welcome disinterment of Kelly Reichardt's debut River of Grass.
        The Irish Times
        9
        But the sprained ankle had forced me to direct the remainder of the disinterment while seated graveside.
        Bones of the Lost
        10
        The Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Society in Wellington had written to the Mayor, asking for permission for the disinterment.
        Radio NZ
        11
        Now, opposite a breathless Tom Cruise, she plays the title character in Universal's latest disinterment of The Mummy.
        The Irish Times
        12
        Hannibal seems ideal for such disinterment.
        The Irish Times
        13
        With each disinterment of a follicle the old man's right leg kicked out reflexively from beneath his chair.
        Gods go begging
        14
        The Comtosook Police Department had hired six part-timers to keep the media away from the site of the disinterment.
        Second glance
        15
        But the chatter is nowhere near as cacophonous as that which followed announcement of Star Wars' disinterment in 2012.
        The Irish Times
        16
        One reason that these things keep happening is that every now and then somebody gets a reasonably obscure disinterment right.
        The Irish Times
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        portuguès
        exumação
        català
        exhumació
        Disinterment through the time