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disinter
/ˌdɪsɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
verb 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
dead
DISINTER + NOUN
faith
PREP.
from
Definitions
verb
1
To take out of the grave or tomb.
2
To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; […]
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Synonyms
verb — dig up for reburial or for medical investigation
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Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
Wiktionary02
At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the
Wiktionary03
In his lectures he is equally wide-ranging and allusive, making strange links and analogies between apparently unrelated texts and ideas, and disinterring etymologies which writers cannot have been aw
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