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Cremated vs Disinterred - What's the difference?

cremated | disinterred |

As verbs the difference between cremated and disinterred

is that cremated is (cremate) while disinterred is (disinter).

cremated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cremate)

    • cremate

    English

    Verb

    (cremat)
  • To burn something to ashes.
  • To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

    • Related terms

    * cremation * crematorium ----

    disinterred

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disinter)

    • disinter

    English

    Verb

    (disinterr)
  • To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
  • To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
  • * 1870 , James Thomson,
    • Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
  • * 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
    • 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; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey 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.

    Antonyms

    * (take out of a grave) inter

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