exhume

as in to unearth
to remove from place of burial 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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Recent Examples of exhume Smit admits that in the months following JonBenét's death, investigators considered going to court to have her body exhumed but decided against it. Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2024 His remains were exhumed in August 2022 and transferred to a DPAA laboratory for analysis. Brie Stimson, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2024 Then, in November 2019, the DPAA exhumed the remains and sent them to a lab for analysis. Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024 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. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exhume

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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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