exhume
verb
ex·hume
ig-ˈzüm 
igz-ˈyüm,
iks-ˈ(h)yüm
exhumed; exhuming
1
: disinter
exhume a body
2
: to bring back from neglect or obscurity
exhumed a great deal of information from the archives
Examples of exhume in a Sentence
the remains of John Paul Jones were exhumed in Paris and transported with great ceremony to the U.S. Naval Academy
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Researchers exhumed the fossils yet again after the end of the war, but this time transported them into safekeeping at Urwelt-Museum Hauff in the nearby town of Holzmaden.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2025
These were Jews and Russian prisoners of war who were forced by Nazi SS officers to do something unimaginably grotesque and inhumane: exhume the more than 70,000 corpses buried in mass graves in a forest named Ponar outside Vilnius, Lithuania.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Because limited space there makes burials a challenge, the traditional Cuban practice is to bury the deceased for six to eight months and then to exhume and inter the remaining bones, Rivero says.
—Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2025
These were Jews and Russian prisoners of war who were forced by Nazi SS officers to do something unimaginably grotesque and inhumane: exhume the more than 70,000 corpses buried in mass graves in a forest named Ponar outside Vilnius, Lithuania.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Because limited space there makes burials a challenge, the traditional Cuban practice is to bury the deceased for six to eight months and then to exhume and inter the remaining bones, Rivero says.
—Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhume. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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exhume
transitive verb
ex·hume
igz-ˈ(y)üm
iks-ˈ(h)yüm
iks-ˈ(h)yüm
exhumed; exhuming
: disinter
the body was exhumed for an autopsy
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