exhume
verb (used with object)
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
were exhuming
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past progressiveof exhume.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Our feet had hardly trodden the lava flagging of the narrow streets when we came in sight of the laborers who were exhuming the inanimate city.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
