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Exhumate vs Exhume - What's the difference?

exhumate | exhume |

As verbs the difference between exhumate and exhume

is that exhumate is (obsolete) to exhume; to disinter while exhume is .

exhumate

English

Verb

(exhumat)
  • (obsolete) To exhume; to disinter.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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