disinter
- v dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
- His offense: refusing to disinter hillside graves to make way for a road to the reservation casino.
- They were buried behind the mosque, but seven of the plots are now open because the men's families came to disinter the deceased and take them back to their hometowns.
- The Beautiful Losers: a black, a homosexual, and -- among others persecuted in adolescence and now called home to disinter a buried memory -- a stutterer and an abused girl.