Cremated vs Disinterred - What's the difference?
cremated | disinterred |
(cremate)
To burn something to ashes.
To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
(disinter)
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,
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
As verbs the difference between cremated and disinterred
is that cremated is (cremate) while disinterred is (disinter).cremated
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(head)cremate
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(cremat)disinterred
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(head)disinter
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(disinterr)- 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; 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.
