disinter

1. (transitive) To take out of the grave or tomb.Synonyms: unbury, exhume, dig upAntonyms: intertransitive

2. (transitive, figurative) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.Examples: "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; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey 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."; "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 aware of."figurativelytransitive