EXHUME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exhume mean? 

• EXHUME (verb)
  The verb EXHUME has 1 sense:

1. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies

  Familiarity information: EXHUME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXHUME (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

disinter; exhume

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)

 Context examples 

The could bury her with no sign of how she met her end, and even if she were exhumed there was a chance for them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This finding could imply that the exposed ice deposits may be exhumed, or they could result from molecular diffusion from depth.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)