Word Meanings - UNBURY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose.

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• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• EXHUME
  To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. Mantell.
• DISINTEREST
  Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
• DISINTERMENT
  The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
• DISINTERESS
  To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. (more info) in; pref. dés- + intéresser to interest, fr. L. interesse
• DISCLOSED
  Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.
• DISINTERESTED
  Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge. The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. Channing.
• DISINTERESTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.
• DISINTERESSMENT
  Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. Prior.
• DISCLOSE
  not shut in, open, OF. desclos, p. p. of desclore to open, F. déclore; pref. des- + clore to shut, fr. L. claudere to 1. To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch. The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the
• DISINTERESTEDLY
  In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
• DISINTER
  1. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up. 2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. Addison.
• DISCLOSER
  One who discloses.
• UNDISCLOSE
  To keep close or secret. Daniel.