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disinterred

/dis-in-tur/US // ˌdɪs ɪnˈtɜr //UK // (ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː) //

已出土的,已出土,已出土文物,已出土的文物

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dis·in·terred, dis·in·ter·ring.

    • : to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
    • : to bring from obscurity into view: The actor's autobiography disinterred a past era.

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Examples

  • Reputations are constantly being disinterred, re-examined, re-purposed for use in the troublesome present.

  • Once disinterred from the parking lot, they became the subject of rival claims.

  • Their bodies were buried for a couple of weeks, and then disinterred and thrown on a road.

  • There have been things this evening that have made me feel as if I had been disinterred—literally dug up from a long sleep.

  • Wild beasts had disinterred many of the bodies, and human bones were bleaching in the rains of summer.

  • He disinterred the treasure, and with impetuous liberality made us sharers in his fortune.

  • They restored it, and disinterred the writings left (by the pious obedience of Xisuthros) in Shurippak, the city of the Sun.

  • Vandyke is said to have disinterred Dobson from a garret, and recommended him to the king.