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单词 disinter
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Definition of disinter in English:

disinter

verbdisinterred, disinterring, disinters ˌdɪsɪnˈtəːˌdɪsənˈtər
[with object]
  • 1Dig up (something that has been buried, especially a corpse)

    将(埋藏物,尤指尸体)挖出

    his corpse was disinterred and dumped in a pit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He has disinterred thousands of bodies from sites where they were buried by the army.
    • It's tremendously ghoulish this film, with dismembering and disinterring graphically depicted.
    • People buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-interred deeper underground, leaving fresh land above for new graves.
    • It isn't empty; only the bodies had been disinterred.
    • As this involves disinterring the previous victims and dismembering them with his specially devised dissection implements, Ichabod is treated with a certain amount of suspicion.
    • They asked the military to disinter the remains they believed to be Michael's and conduct a DNA test to try and make a positive identification.
    • The ghastly sight of mutilated corpses disinterred from mass graves is psychologically incompatible with calculations about scarce resources, opportunity costs and trade-offs.
    • In an awful silence he disinterred a little lead figure of a man in black clothes.
    • Human remains regularly have to be disinterred from old burial grounds scheduled for development.
    • If it decides to allow it, people buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-buried deeper underground leaving land above for new graves.
    • Several years after he died and was buried in China his body was disinterred and found to be miraculously intact.
    • All three were later disinterred and buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC.
    • According to legend this was the work of one monk after the bones were disinterred and moved from their original burial ground to the new church.
    • The Thai commander then disinterred the body of King Ekkathat and accorded it full cremation honours.
    • Later his remains were disinterred and removed for permanent burial in France.
    • In 1648 his remains were disinterred and buried under a dunghill, but after the Restoration they were restored to their original resting place.
    • The police plan to disinter Taufik's body in order to perform an autopsy and determine an exact cause of death.
    • Mopping up continued through the night as frantic efforts were made to disinter the troops buried in the tunnels.
    • In fact, the body gets buried and disinterred, and reburied and almost buried, quite a few times.
    • Some bodies were found in rusty coffins, some as much as 10 years old, that had evidently been buried and then later disinterred.
    Synonyms
    exhume, unearth, dig up, bring out of the ground, bring to the surface
    rare disentomb, unbury, ungrave
    1. 1.1 Discover (something that is well hidden)
      发现(掩藏物)
      he has disinterred an important collection of writings

      他发现并翻译了一部重要的作品集。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Similarly, she's not hanging about to be told whether the show which made her is to be disinterred.
      • Interpretation for Michel is not a question of disinterring the unconscious of the artist but of grasping the unconscious of the work.
      • Yet it was not until the final chapter, in which Cagliostro's legacy - historical, cultural, philosophical - is disinterred, that I really began to care.
      • But that would be no different from somebody disinterring a 20-year-old volume of the Commonwealth Law Reports and recounting what happened in some case.
      • Plans for such a move were regarded by observers as an apparent attempt to make political gains from disinterring the past of some of the governing coalition's opponents.
      • Civil-rights tourism is on the rise in the southern US, as the former segregationist states disinter their past.
      • The upturn in the US economy has certainly disinterred some economic verities.
      • The reasons for disinterring this seemingly dead debate are not romantic, then, but instrumental.
      • For Davis to disinter capital punishment, of all issues, when he has barely begun to read his briefing documents in his new job, was a clear and deliberate signal too.
      • Truth, meanwhile, that which is disinterred by science, Gellner describes as available to all and valid for all.
      • It has been a noticeable feature of media scrutiny of both religion and politics that the negative and the scandalous are continually disinterred to reinforce negativity.
      • After considering the main tributaries which flow into the realist stream of thinking, the third section will attempt to disinter a core of realist principles to which all realists could subscribe.
      • It is a sad reminder of how far we have fallen back that it is necessary to disinter these elementary lessons of Empire.
      • So it isn't so much an exasperation, but a mystification, almost amounting to irritation under questioning, that Berkovic should be disinterred from the mental plot to which the manager has evidently assigned him.
      • Out of respect, her family would not allow the University of Nebraska Press to disinter the ledger in 1959, even temporarily, so it could be photographed in color.
      • The great achievement of the present book is that it achieves just that - by letting Godwin speak for himself, and by disinterring properly for the first time the connections that link his diverse interests.
      Synonyms
      discover, detect, find, find out, hunt down, hunt out, unearth, uncover, turn up, dig up, seek out, ferret out, root out, nose out, bring to light, expose, recover, capture, catch, smell out, sniff out, run to earth, run to ground, run down

Derivatives

  • disinterment

  • nounˌdɪsɪnˈtəːm(ə)ntˌdɪs(ə)nˈtərmənt
    • In some cases the long-revered bones were found to be fabrications of wax or plaster: films of the disinterments were shown throughout the republic and were a persuasive anti-religious weapon.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But its exploration of the past is more than a disinterment, an autopsy explaining the death of American promise.
      • A state of expectation is growing in Spain regarding the disinterment of the body of the great Spanish poet, author and playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca.
      • But after December 4, when he witnessed the disinterment of four American women murdered by Salvadoran soldiers, his life would never be the same.
      • The team tours the countryside, organising digs and disinterments and, as they try to find the dead sons of forgotten families, they wonder at the sense and scale of their task.

Origin

Early 17th century: from French désenterrer, from dis- (expressing reversal) + enterrer 'to inter'.

Definition of disinter in US English:

disinter

verbˌdisənˈtərˌdɪsənˈtər
[with object]
  • 1Dig up (something that has been buried, especially a corpse).

    将(埋藏物,尤指尸体)挖出

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some bodies were found in rusty coffins, some as much as 10 years old, that had evidently been buried and then later disinterred.
    • Later his remains were disinterred and removed for permanent burial in France.
    • In 1648 his remains were disinterred and buried under a dunghill, but after the Restoration they were restored to their original resting place.
    • The police plan to disinter Taufik's body in order to perform an autopsy and determine an exact cause of death.
    • If it decides to allow it, people buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-buried deeper underground leaving land above for new graves.
    • As this involves disinterring the previous victims and dismembering them with his specially devised dissection implements, Ichabod is treated with a certain amount of suspicion.
    • Several years after he died and was buried in China his body was disinterred and found to be miraculously intact.
    • It's tremendously ghoulish this film, with dismembering and disinterring graphically depicted.
    • Human remains regularly have to be disinterred from old burial grounds scheduled for development.
    • People buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-interred deeper underground, leaving fresh land above for new graves.
    • They asked the military to disinter the remains they believed to be Michael's and conduct a DNA test to try and make a positive identification.
    • The ghastly sight of mutilated corpses disinterred from mass graves is psychologically incompatible with calculations about scarce resources, opportunity costs and trade-offs.
    • In fact, the body gets buried and disinterred, and reburied and almost buried, quite a few times.
    • He has disinterred thousands of bodies from sites where they were buried by the army.
    • According to legend this was the work of one monk after the bones were disinterred and moved from their original burial ground to the new church.
    • In an awful silence he disinterred a little lead figure of a man in black clothes.
    • It isn't empty; only the bodies had been disinterred.
    • All three were later disinterred and buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC.
    • Mopping up continued through the night as frantic efforts were made to disinter the troops buried in the tunnels.
    • The Thai commander then disinterred the body of King Ekkathat and accorded it full cremation honours.
    Synonyms
    exhume, unearth, dig up, bring out of the ground, bring to the surface
    1. 1.1 Discover (something that is well hidden)
      发现(掩藏物)
      he has disinterred and translated an important collection of writings

      他发现并翻译了一部重要的作品集。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Civil-rights tourism is on the rise in the southern US, as the former segregationist states disinter their past.
      • The reasons for disinterring this seemingly dead debate are not romantic, then, but instrumental.
      • Out of respect, her family would not allow the University of Nebraska Press to disinter the ledger in 1959, even temporarily, so it could be photographed in color.
      • It is a sad reminder of how far we have fallen back that it is necessary to disinter these elementary lessons of Empire.
      • But that would be no different from somebody disinterring a 20-year-old volume of the Commonwealth Law Reports and recounting what happened in some case.
      • Yet it was not until the final chapter, in which Cagliostro's legacy - historical, cultural, philosophical - is disinterred, that I really began to care.
      • Similarly, she's not hanging about to be told whether the show which made her is to be disinterred.
      • The great achievement of the present book is that it achieves just that - by letting Godwin speak for himself, and by disinterring properly for the first time the connections that link his diverse interests.
      • Plans for such a move were regarded by observers as an apparent attempt to make political gains from disinterring the past of some of the governing coalition's opponents.
      • It has been a noticeable feature of media scrutiny of both religion and politics that the negative and the scandalous are continually disinterred to reinforce negativity.
      • So it isn't so much an exasperation, but a mystification, almost amounting to irritation under questioning, that Berkovic should be disinterred from the mental plot to which the manager has evidently assigned him.
      • For Davis to disinter capital punishment, of all issues, when he has barely begun to read his briefing documents in his new job, was a clear and deliberate signal too.
      • After considering the main tributaries which flow into the realist stream of thinking, the third section will attempt to disinter a core of realist principles to which all realists could subscribe.
      • The upturn in the US economy has certainly disinterred some economic verities.
      • Interpretation for Michel is not a question of disinterring the unconscious of the artist but of grasping the unconscious of the work.
      • Truth, meanwhile, that which is disinterred by science, Gellner describes as available to all and valid for all.
      Synonyms
      discover, detect, find, find out, hunt down, hunt out, unearth, uncover, turn up, dig up, seek out, ferret out, root out, nose out, bring to light, expose, recover, capture, catch, smell out, sniff out, run to earth, run to ground, run down

Origin

Early 17th century: from French désenterrer, from dis- (expressing reversal) + enterrer ‘to inter’.

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