exhume
verb (used with object)
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
have exhumed
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present perfectof exhume.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In the year since the army recaptured Khartoum, authorities have exhumed and reburied "around 28,000 people", Hisham Zein al-Abdeen, head of forensic medicine at Sudan's health ministry, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Police have exhumed MohBad's body for an autopsy, but the results have not yet been released.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023
Authorities have exhumed most of the bodies from the forest in southeast Kenya since April.
From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2023
Here, ancient ice flows have exhumed the oldest ice from the deep.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 30, 2019
They have exhumed from the archives and the record offices such a mass of uncontested and incontestable documents, that not the slightest doubt is now permissible.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
