Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to disinter
Participle: disinterred
Gerund: disinterring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | disinter |
| you | disinter |
| he;she;it | disinters |
| we | disinter |
| you | disinter |
| they | disinter |
Perfect
| I | have disinterred |
| you | have disinterred |
| he;she;it | has disinterred |
| we | have disinterred |
| you | have disinterred |
| they | have disinterred |
Past
| I | disinterred |
| you | disinterred |
| he;she;it | disinterred |
| we | disinterred |
| you | disinterred |
| they | disinterred |
Pluperfect
| I | had disinterred |
| you | had disinterred |
| he;she;it | had disinterred |
| we | had disinterred |
| you | had disinterred |
| they | had disinterred |
Future
| I | will disinter |
| you | will disinter |
| he;she;it | will disinter |
| we | will disinter |
| you | will disinter |
| they | will disinter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have disinterred |
| you | will have disinterred |
| he;she;it | will have disinterred |
| we | will have disinterred |
| you | will have disinterred |
| they | will have disinterred |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | disinter |
| you | disinter |
| he;she;it | disinter |
| we | disinter |
| you | disinter |
| they | disinter |
Perfect
| I | have disinterred |
| you | have disinterred |
| he;she;it | have disinterred |
| we | have disinterred |
| you | have disinterred |
| they | have disinterred |
Imperfect
| I | disinterred |
| you | disinterred |
| he;she;it | disinterred |
| we | disinterred |
| you | disinterred |
| they | disinterred |
Pluperfect
| I | had disinterred |
| you | had disinterred |
| he;she;it | had disinterred |
| we | had disinterred |
| you | had disinterred |
| they | had disinterred |
Conditional
Present
| I | would disinter |
| you | would disinter |
| he;she;it | would disinter |
| we | would disinter |
| you | would disinter |
| they | would disinter |
Perfect
| I | would have disinterred |
| you | would have disinterred |
| he;she;it | would have disinterred |
| we | would have disinterred |
| you | would have disinterred |
| they | would have disinterred |
Imperative
| you | disinter |
| we | Let's disinter |
| you | disinter |
Verbs conjugated like 'disinter'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'disinter'
disenter,
disaster,
disinsert,
dister,
misenter,
misinfer,
sinter,
bewinter,
debitter,
decenter,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1611, from Fr. désenterrer (15c.), from dés- "dis-" + enterrer "to inter" (see inter).
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
5. Proto-Italic *dis-
6. Latin dis-
7. Old French des-
8. Middle French des-
9. French dés-
10. French enterrer
11. French désenterrerbor.
12. English disinter
13. Borrowed from French désenterrer.
Sample Sentences
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Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden? [1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:]
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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; […] [1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 42:]
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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. [2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]