Disinter vs Excavate - What's the difference?
disinter | excavate |
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)
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.
(zoology) Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
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)- 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.