disinter
verb🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(r)/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːr/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disinter | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(r)/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːr/ |
| he / she / it disinters | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːz/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːrz/ |
| past simple disinterred | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːrd/ |
| past participle disinterred | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːd/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːrd/ |
| -ing form disinterring | 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːrɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜːrɪŋ/ |
- disinter something
to dig up something, especially a dead body, from the ground 从地下掘出（尤指尸体） - disinter something (from something)
to find something that has been hidden or lost for a long time 发现（隐藏或丢失很久的东西）；使显现
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French désenterrer, from dis- (expressing reversal) + enterrer ‘to inter’.