Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies.
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Examples for "disinter "
1 He could not disinter himself-itseemed like that-underthe eyes of Balthasar.
2 After some years, however, he was persuaded to disinter and publish them.
3 You will disinter the body, and you will throw it into the sewer.
4 Those who had fled into the funk-holes now gradually and head first disinter themselves.
5 He had sought to get permission to disinter the treasure, and had not succeeded.
1 But the decision to exhume the body initially divided Emmett's remaining family.
2 We might exhume the body: what would that prove after three months?
3 A government commission formed and a team was assembled to exhume the deceased.
4 Mr Tau expected Tuhoe to defy any ruling to exhume Mr Takamore's body.
5 The rest of us traipsed off day after day to exhume the past.
6 She is there to exhume the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood.
7 The archdiocese wanted me to exhume and analyze the remains of a saint.
8 I want to exhume the stories of the people who dreamed.
9 If we can carefully exhume him, we may find out how he died.
10 It is pointless to exhume the reasons for his absence from our national team.
11 Investigators will probably exhume Mr Khan's body, Mr Cina added.
12 And it would hardly be decent to exhume the remains.
13 In this marginal space, two sisters exhume their past traumas.
14 They exhume the paralyzed man from his sheets and change his clothes opposite me.
15 But we exhume them from old documents to show how these things were done.
16 Now outraged investors want to exhume the founder's body to make sure he's really dead.
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