What's the difference between disinter and untomb?
Disinter
Definition:
(v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
(v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prime minister's intervention today, in which he disinterred the hoary old chestnut of householders using "reasonable force" to defend their property, signals the beginning of a return of a more traditional Tory law and order agenda.
(2) Molloy was named by the IRA on the list of the disappeared that it released in March 1999, and a few weeks later his remains were disinterred and placed in a coffin that was left in a graveyard just south of the border.
(3) When the skeletal material was disinterred in 1976 it was decided to make appropriate arrangements for an in-situ-presentation at a later stage.
(4) A forensic expert, Mario David García, said the bodies of pregnant women were found among the victims of massacres who were disinterred years later.
(5) While Europe's nationalist right is attempting to disinter the nation-state and relive the glory days of the postwar boom, the Five Star Movement has more in common with the anarchic radicalism of the Spanish indignados or the Occupy movement.
(6) Clearly, the Conservatives feel they need to do something if they are to win the Rochester byelection and see off the Ukip threat at next May’s general election, even if this means outdoing Farage and his henchpersons in demonising the Other, even if it means disinterring Enoch Powell and his language of infection, blood and hate.
(7) And if you haven't read The Rum Diary, then the movie will save you having to bother; it's a jejune work disinterred from Thompson's dustiest bottom drawer – by Depp himself – three decades after it was junked by the author.
(8) In 1933, the bones in the Abbey were disinterred and examined, with the conclusion that they were indeed those of the princes.
(9) We have a crisis in Yemen that is intractable and a burgeoning crisis on Egypt, and those are to my mind far more important than any obiter dicta you may have disinterred from 30 years of journalism.” The event was probably Johnson’s bumpiest ride since his appointment as foreign secretary less than a week ago, although he was booed by a section of the audience after speaking at the French ambassador’s party on Bastille Day.
(10) The authors describe a case of necrophilia in which the corpse of a young girl was disinterred.
(11) Disinterred osteocytes retained an ability to migrate from their lacunae on to surrounding bone matrix surface.
(12) Although Ashford would be keen to see Austen's bones disinterred for modern forensic analysis, she accepts this is unlikely to happen.
(13) Amor Masovic believes the missing 1,200 are somewhere in the mountains or in secondary graves, where the Bosnian Serb army reburied the corpses they had disinterred.
(14) England, above all, could at last disinter its identity and the buried radicalism of its people.
(15) In fact, it was an attempt to disinter a great romance when both the players are dead.
(16) We do not need to disinter Tony Blair to win, we simply need radical and green policies that bring Labour supporters to the voting booth and stop defections to other parties (including the SNP, Green and Ukip).
(17) They also claim that the wanker incident is probably not part of a concerted effort to upend Hilton – merely a piece of amusing gossip disinterred because Hilton's name has been in the news – and the mud this week.
(18) As the corpse is exhumed, many long-buried thoughts and fears are disinterred in the minds of the hard-bitten lawmen.
(19) This will force up charges of domestic violence, which are often buried in the interests of a settlement but are likely to be disinterred if there is no other option.
(20) Because he failed to record suspicious marks on the body of a five-year-old child in 2002, the police had to disinter her remains, the GMC said.
Untomb
Definition:
(v. t.) To take from the tomb; to exhume; to disinter.