exhume
verb (used with object)
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
exhumer
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a word derived from
exhume.
Example Sentences
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Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past."
From Time Magazine Archive
Learned dilettante of history, he is no ghoulish exhumer of dead facts but a mildly malicious wizard who summons very lifelike ghosts.
From Time Magazine Archive
My servant must have given information to the exhumer.
From A Love Story by A Bushman
