disinter

Verb

1. To take out of the grave or tomb.

   Synonyms: unbury exhume dig up

   Antonyms: inter

2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
   • Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden? - 1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
   • 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...
   • 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...