Disinterment

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disinterment \Dis`in*ter"ment\, n.
     The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth;
     exhumation.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  disinterment
       n : the act of digging up something (especially a corpse) that
           has been buried [syn: {exhumation}, {digging up}]