Disinter vs Disinterment - What's the difference?
disinter | disinterment |
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 a verb disinter
is to take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.As a noun disinterment is
the act of disinterring.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.