EXHUMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exhumation mean? 

• EXHUMATION (noun)
  The noun EXHUMATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried

  Familiarity information: EXHUMATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXHUMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

digging up; disinterment; exhumation

Hypernyms ("exhumation" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Derivation:

exhume (dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies)