disinter

verb

1. (transitive)To take out of the grave or tomb.
2. (figuratively, transitive)To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.

   “Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?”

   “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; […]”

   “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.”