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Disinter vs Excavate - What's the difference?

disinter | excavate |

As verbs the difference between disinter and excavate

is that disinter is to take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up while excavate is to make a hole in (something); to hollow.

As a noun excavate is

(zoology) any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade excavata.

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

    Anagrams

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    excavate

    English

    Etymology 1

    Known since 1599, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
  • To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
  • To uncover (something) by removing its covering.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (wikipedia excavate) (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
  • References

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