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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Association chairperson Alan Daly said: "After many months of preparation, we have formally applied for the exhumation of Roger Casement to bring him home."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
"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
Who knows what could have taken place there between the date of burial and on the days before the exhumation?
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
