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单词 disinter
释义 disinter, v.|dɪsɪnˈtɜː(r)|
Also 7 disen-, -terre.
[ad. F. désenterrer (15th c. in Littré), f. des- dis- 4 +enterrer to inter.]
1. trans. To take (something) out of the earth in which it is buried; to take (a corpse, etc.) out of the grave; to unbury, exhume.
1611Cotgr., Dessevelir, to disinterre, vnburie.1627May Lucan ix. (R.) Isis (their Goddesse now) I'le disinterre.1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xix. 384 To disenterre the bodies of the deceased.1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 96 Dis-interre the greatest roots.1867Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 2 The short shallow skulls which are even now disinterred in old barrows.
2. transf. and fig. To take out as if from a tomb; to bring out of concealment, ‘unearth’.
1711Addison Spect. No. 215 ⁋2 The Philosopher, the Saint, or the Hero..very often lie..concealed in a Plebeian, which a proper Education might have dis-interred.1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, The two ladies who had been disinterred out of the fallen vehicle.
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