Disenterred vs Disinterred - What's the difference?
disenterred | disinterred |
(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 disenterred and disinterred
is that disenterred is past tense of disenter while disinterred is past tense of disinter.disinterred
English
Verb
(head)disinter
English
Verb
(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.