exhume
verb (used with object)
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
is exhuming
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present progressiveof exhume (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The playwright, Mary Kathryn Nagle, is one of their direct descendants on her father’s side, and in “Sovereignty” she is exhuming some family history that is also American history.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
Now Newsom, who kept me company on nights in the Washington Square fountain, is exhuming the bodies beneath it, just one noteworthy dig on an archaeological reckoning of the northeastern United States.
From The Verge ● Oct. 23, 2015
Now Russia's ruling élite is exhuming an old debate: whether to move Lenin's body out of the mausoleum and bury it.
From Time Magazine Archive
