Definition of "disinterring" []

• Present participle of disinter. (verb)

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• "Two young ladies, and a gentleman seeming not far from young, stood at the end of the coach to watch the success of the driver and Mr. Cowslip in disinterring sundry trunks and boxes from under the boot and a load of other trunks and boxes."
• "If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating."
• "In the town of the orphanage, a family of gypsies arrives with the intention of disinterring the body of a cousin, which had been improperly buried and is plaguing them with fevers."