exhume
verb (used with object)
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
exhumation
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a word derived from
exhume.
Example Sentences
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"If someone were not afraid of the truth, the exhumation would have been carried out long ago," Rybarska, carrying a Polish flag, added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
"We're going to have to wait a very long time" until the exhumation teams work their way up to the more recent graves, she told AFP as she watched the teams at work.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
But the magistrate noted that this evidence had been called into question as samples had reached the UK four months after exhumation and they were not in the containers they had originally been packed in.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
The unusual time of morning to perform the exhumation was selected to thwart possible newsmen and curiosity-seekers from ogling the corpse and possibly taking photographs.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
