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disinter
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dis·in·ter  (dsn-tûr)
tr.v. dis·in·terred, dis·in·ter·ring, dis·in·ters
1. To dig up or remove from a grave or tomb; exhume.
2. To bring to public notice; disclose.

disin·terment n.

disinter
Verb
[-terring, -terred]
1. to dig up
2. to bring to light; expose
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Verb1.disinter - dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
dig up, excavate, turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"


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In two other sculptural models, he disinters Robert Smithson's Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970, a work politicized by the shooting of a student at Kent State during an antiwar demonstration only months after it was realized on the Ohio campus, and by its eventual removal.
She disinters horrid, decomposed corpses, / and makes them croak out, in their awful, hoarse speech.
 
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