different between disinter vs ungrave

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French désenterrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?n?t??(?)/

Verb

disinter (third-person singular simple present disinters, present participle disinterring, simple past and past participle disinterred)

1. To take out of the grave or tomb.

   Synonyms: unbury, exhume, dig up

2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire.

Antonyms

• (take out of a grave): inter

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• in stride, inditers, neritids, nitrides

English

Etymology

un- +? grave

Verb

ungrave (third-person singular simple present ungraves, present participle ungraving, simple past and past participle ungraved)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To raise or remove from the grave.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     I scorn to ungrave thy dust

Synonyms

• exhume
• disinter
• untomb