disinterment

Examples

• All

• The exhumation of a white man and the use of his skull for protection against the colonial administration speak to the antagonistic conditions between the Fang and the French, as well as the anxiety among whites over disinterment and autopsy (Fig. 10).

  Academic text (2010)

• Such painstaking disinterment and investigation are time-consuming and costly, but the information gained is substantial.

  Academic text (2003)

• The setting Kipling provides for this alarming disinterment of the "dead" past is a circus tent, exotically planted in a seaport at the southern tip of Africa, half a world removed from London ("Home and Friends").

  Academic text (1993)

• The disinterment of the body was necessary for the investigation into the cause of death.

• Following the disinterment, the remains were carefully examined by forensic experts.

• The family requested the disinterment of their ancestor to relocate him to a different cemetery.

Synonyms

E

exhumation

vsdisinterment

• Specialized

11 9.4

To dig up a buried body to examine it

focuses on uncovering a buried body rather than on removing it

D

digging up

vsdisinterment

9 4.8

Removing earth to uncover something buried, like an old object or body

applies specifically to buried bodies and is more formal in tone

Antonyms

B

burial

172 3.5

The act of placing a dead body in a grave, often with a ceremony

I

interment

• Formal

4 8.4

The act of placing a dead body in a grave after a funeral

How Formal

exhumation

• Specialized

11 9.4

disinterment

1 9.9

uncovering

3.2

digging up

9 4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology