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Disinter vs Exhume - What's the difference?

disinter | exhume |

Exhume is a antonym of disinter.

Exhume is a synonym of disinter.



As verbs the difference between disinter and exhume

is that disinter is to take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up while exhume is to dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

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

    * *

    exhume

    English

    Verb

    (exhum)
  • To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
    • The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

    Synonyms

    * dig up, disinter, unearth

    Antonyms

    * bury, inhume, inter

    Derived terms

    * exhumation * exhumer