exhume
verb (used with object)
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
exhumes
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present tense formof exhume (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“In 1945 our parents went away and left us,” the British narrator begins, and decades later, he exhumes their secrets from the mire of espionage and war.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2018
She exhumes two fictional outtakes from discarded novels, including one about a linguistics scholar that she wrote more than 20 years ago.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2017
As the low-affect Elliot gradually exhumes his past, says Malek, “You’re forced as an audience member to navigate inside his head, see everything he’s grappled with that becomes that much more telling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2016
In this captivating double portrait, Cumming exhumes the little that is known of the Spanish artist and courtier through the peculiar tale of one of his most passionate devotees.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 4, 2016
Under the mist that the sun illumes, She, where her terraces arise And taper to the terraced skies, Herself as from a dream exhumes.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
