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EXHUME
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they exhume ... he / she / it exhumes
Past simple: exhumed
Past participle: exhumed
-ing form: exhuming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
Synonyms:
disinter; exhume
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "exhume" is one way to...):
dig up; excavate; turn up (find by digging in the ground)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
exhumation (the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried)
