The act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried.
synonyms: digging up, disinterment.
Roget 363:
interment,
burial,
sepulture†;
inhumation†;
obsequies,
exequies†;
funeral,
wake,
pyre,
funeral pile;
cremation.
funeral,
funeral rite,
funeral solemnity;
kneel,
passing bell,
tolling;
dirge
etc.
(lamentation)
839;
cypress;
orbit,
dead march,
muffled drum;
mortuary,
undertaker,
mute;
elegy;
funeral,
funeral oration,
funeral sermon;
epitaph.
graveclothes†,
shroud,
winding sheet,
cerecloth;
cerement.
coffin,
shell,
sarcophagus,
urn,
pall,
bier,
hearse,
catafalque,
cinerary urn†.
grave,
pit,
sepulcher,
tomb,
vault,
crypt,
catacomb,
mausoleum,
Golgotha,
house of death,
narrow house;
cemetery,
necropolis;
burial place,
burial ground;
grave yard,
church yard;
God's acre;
tope,
cromlech,
barrow,
tumulus,
cairn;
ossuary;
bone house,
charnel house,
dead house;
morgue;
lich gate†;
burning ghat†;
crematorium,
crematory;
dokhma†,
mastaba†,
potter's field,
stupa†,
Tower of Silence.
sexton,
gravedigger.
monument,
cenotaph,
shrine;
grave stone,
head stone,
tomb stone;
memento mori [Lat.];
hatchment†,
stone;
obelisk,
pyramid.
exhumation,
disinterment;
necropsy,
autopsy,
post mortem examination [Lat.];
zoothapsis†.
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Dutch: opgraving, exhumatie