noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of disinterring. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried wordnet

Synonyms

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exhumationdigging upexhumationsexhuming

Antonyms

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most burial-actionburialburial-actioncoffining

Etymology

From disinter + -ment.