What's the difference between disinter and exhume?

Disinter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up.
  • (v. t.) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prime minister's intervention today, in which he disinterred the hoary old chestnut of householders using "reasonable force" to defend their property, signals the beginning of a return of a more traditional Tory law and order agenda.
  • (2) Molloy was named by the IRA on the list of the disappeared that it released in March 1999, and a few weeks later his remains were disinterred and placed in a coffin that was left in a graveyard just south of the border.
  • (3) When the skeletal material was disinterred in 1976 it was decided to make appropriate arrangements for an in-situ-presentation at a later stage.
  • (4) A forensic expert, Mario David García, said the bodies of pregnant women were found among the victims of massacres who were disinterred years later.
  • (5) While Europe's nationalist right is attempting to disinter the nation-state and relive the glory days of the postwar boom, the Five Star Movement has more in common with the anarchic radicalism of the Spanish indignados or the Occupy movement.
  • (6) Clearly, the Conservatives feel they need to do something if they are to win the Rochester byelection and see off the Ukip threat at next May’s general election, even if this means outdoing Farage and his henchpersons in demonising the Other, even if it means disinterring Enoch Powell and his language of infection, blood and hate.
  • (7) And if you haven't read The Rum Diary, then the movie will save you having to bother; it's a jejune work disinterred from Thompson's dustiest bottom drawer – by Depp himself – three decades after it was junked by the author.
  • (8) In 1933, the bones in the Abbey were disinterred and examined, with the conclusion that they were indeed those of the princes.
  • (9) We have a crisis in Yemen that is intractable and a burgeoning crisis on Egypt, and those are to my mind far more important than any obiter dicta you may have disinterred from 30 years of journalism.” The event was probably Johnson’s bumpiest ride since his appointment as foreign secretary less than a week ago, although he was booed by a section of the audience after speaking at the French ambassador’s party on Bastille Day.
  • (10) The authors describe a case of necrophilia in which the corpse of a young girl was disinterred.
  • (11) Disinterred osteocytes retained an ability to migrate from their lacunae on to surrounding bone matrix surface.
  • (12) Although Ashford would be keen to see Austen's bones disinterred for modern forensic analysis, she accepts this is unlikely to happen.
  • (13) Amor Masovic believes the missing 1,200 are somewhere in the mountains or in secondary graves, where the Bosnian Serb army reburied the corpses they had disinterred.
  • (14) England, above all, could at last disinter its identity and the buried radicalism of its people.
  • (15) In fact, it was an attempt to disinter a great romance when both the players are dead.
  • (16) We do not need to disinter Tony Blair to win, we simply need radical and green policies that bring Labour supporters to the voting booth and stop defections to other parties (including the SNP, Green and Ukip).
  • (17) They also claim that the wanker incident is probably not part of a concerted effort to upend Hilton – merely a piece of amusing gossip disinterred because Hilton's name has been in the news – and the mud this week.
  • (18) As the corpse is exhumed, many long-buried thoughts and fears are disinterred in the minds of the hard-bitten lawmen.
  • (19) This will force up charges of domestic violence, which are often buried in the interests of a settlement but are likely to be disinterred if there is no other option.
  • (20) Because he failed to record suspicious marks on the body of a five-year-old child in 2002, the police had to disinter her remains, the GMC said.

Exhume


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Government officials cite this and a number of alleged irregularities in previous investigations as justification for the exhumations, to the outrage of some relatives.
  • (2) Sixteen family members led by Makaziwe won a court case against Mandla over his 2011 decision to secretly exhume and rebury Mandela's three late children in the village of Mvezo, where Mandla is chief and has built a visitor centre.
  • (3) In two cases an exhumation was necessary since the bodies had been buried without any further formalities.
  • (4) To this end, they must be exhumed and given military honours.
  • (5) The former, in association with the University of Leicester, kicked off last year's stunning exhumation of Richard III's body from a car park in Leicester, and Leicester is where it wants his final resting place to be.
  • (6) More alarmingly, since 2008, when a local tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in Dakar, police have been cracking down, many homosexuals have gone into hiding or fled abroad (including to Gambia, whose president told them they should leave again within 24 hours or face decapitation), nine gay activists have been jailed after coming out, and the bodies of at least four gay men have been exhumed from their graves and dragged through the streets by jeering mobs.
  • (7) Before she died, Mobley had told loved ones that she did not want her son to be exhumed; she simply wanted the state of Mississippi to apologise.
  • (8) Like the fictional narrator of Soldiers of Salamis , Silva went looking for the past, beginning with the location and exhumation of the remains of his own grandfather from a ditch in north-west Spain.
  • (9) They ruled Grayling had acted reasonably and lawfully in consulting with the "sovereign, state and church", and in granting an exhumation licence which allowed the University of Leicester, which led the archeological dig on the site of the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, to determine Leicester cathedral as the place of reburial.
  • (10) Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more.
  • (11) The exhumation was ordered by the magistrate on request of the parents of one of the victims who suspected that their son had been wrongly identified at the postmortem examination.
  • (12) The deposed president's body was exhumed in May for its first authoritative autopsy as Chile's independent judiciary began a criminal investigation into the death of Allende and hundreds of other victims of the Pinochet dictatorship.
  • (13) Dismissing a claim for wide-ranging public consultation, the judges said there was no "legitimate expectation" that Richard III's "collateral descendants would be consulted after centuries in relation to an exhumed historical figure".
  • (14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
  • (15) But in a dozen other cases graves have been opened and bodies exhumed to see if children deemed dead and buried were not in their proper place.
  • (16) These are Bosnians executed 20 years ago, painstakingly exhumed from one of the largest mass graves ever found in the country.
  • (17) The post mortem, pathological and toxological examinations of the exhumed corpse permitted the diagnosis of reticulum cell sarcoma 16 months after death.
  • (18) A historical memory association, which helped with the dig in Guadalajara, has carried out several exhumations in recent years at the request of families.
  • (19) For others, the push for exhumations is an unwelcome way of reviving old wounds.
  • (20) The panel was told that Carey had been called to examine the exhumed body of the five-year-old after concerns were raised about the initial recorded cause of death.

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