verb
- past tense and past participle of misinter; to bury or inter incorrectly or in the wrong place
Usage: rare; formal
Examples
- The archaeologists discovered that the remains had been misinterred decades earlier.
- Due to poor record-keeping, several soldiers were misinterred in unmarked graves.
- The family learned that their ancestor had been misinterred in the wrong cemetery.
- Historical records showed that the nobleman was misinterred after the war.
- The restoration project involved locating and properly reburying those who had been misinterred.