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disinter

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of disinter

to remove from place of burial

  • the Egyptian mummy was carefully disinterred
Synonyms of disinter

exhume, unearth
Antonyms of disinter

bury, entomb, inhume, inter, tomb

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