What Does It Mean to Disinter Someone?

transitive verb. 1 : to take out of the grave or tomb. 2 : to bring back into awareness or prominence also : to bring to light : unearth.

What does disgracing a body mean?

To "inter" a body is to bury it or place it in a mausoleum, so to disinter someone is to take the body out again — usually to find out how they died, to make sure it's really who we think it is, or to move the body to a new burial site. ... If the body is removed, it's being "dis-entered," in a sense.

How do you use disinter in a sentence?

1 The corpse was disinterred and re-examined by the coroner. 2 The president's memoir disinterred a past era. 3 The court granted him permission to disinter the body.