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disinterring

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

掘墓,出土,出土文物,出土的

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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

  • Turner was disinterred on March 17, 1921, after his family asked that he be sent home.

  • We wish, in short, to disinter the ‘good’ that lies with these bones.

  • Sen. Robert F. Kennedy looked on as Pollard began to disinter the president with the backhoe.

  • He was buried quite properly; and his friends came at the right time to disinter him.

  • Great was his anxiety when, the national danger over, he came down to disinter his hoard.

  • Poking about he contrived to disinter from various tins and ice-boxes some cold chicken and biscuits and a bottle of claret.

  • If we disinter thy body, and cease praying to God for thee, wilt thou be the less damned?

  • There was nothing for it but to wait till she could somehow or other disinter a fly and a horse, and, worst of all a driver.