disinter

Verb

disinter (third-person singular simple present disinters, present participle disinterring, simple past and past participle disinterred)

1. (transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb.

   Synonyms:

   unbury, exhume, dig up

   Antonyms:

   inter

2. (figuratively, transitive) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
   • Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
   • At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 42