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The act of digging up something (especially a corpse) that has been buried
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disinterment
Word definitions for disinterment in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of digging up something (especially a corpse) that has been buried [syn: exhumation , digging up ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disinterment \Dis`in*ter"ment\, n. The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of disinterring.
Usage examples of disinterment.
A warrant of disinterment had been issued and the coffin containing the elderly spinster taken from the grave and photographed by perhaps a dozen newspaper photographers at sunup.
Storm asked him, "Was this body, to your official and absolute knowledge, sent to you following its disinterment from a grave in Elmwood Cemetery?
Howard, and Frank Belknap Long The Disinterment Sep 1935 Summer 1935The Californian, 3, No.
Mary Beth McConnell remembered a project she and her graduate adviser had been involved in: a North Carolina State Historical Society-sponsored disinterment of a nineteenth-century grave to run DNA tests on the body inside, to see if the corpse was that of a descendant of Sir Francis Drake, as a local legend claimed.
The only sure way is to get a court order for disinterment and have a pathologist verify the body.