verb (used with object), 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.
verb -ters, -terring or -terred (tr)
- to remove or dig up; exhume
- to bring (a secret, hidden facts, etc) to light; expose
1610s, from French désenterrer (15c.), from dés- (see dis-) + enterrer “to inter” (see inter). Related: Disinterred.