Disinterment

//ˌdɪs.ɪnˈtɜː.mənt// noun

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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exhumationexhumationdigging up

Etymology

From disinter + -ment.

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