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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“The Marriage Portrait” exhumes a similarly fated youngster: Lucrezia, the daughter of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022
Still, founded on prodigious research, it convincingly impugns key tenets of Bugliosi’s narrative and exhumes a trove of provocative data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2019
“Skull Island” pretty much exhumes the same story conceived for the 1933 classic.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
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
