Synonyms of exhumed

exhumed

verb

past tense of exhume

as in unearthed

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unearthed
• disinterred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• buried
• interred
• entombed
• tombed
• inhumed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of exhumed

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

Saint Nicholas‘ body was then exhumed and reburied in the church. —Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2024

Between June and November 2015, those remains were again exhumed and analyzed at the DPAA's laboratory. —Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024

Investigators had Jane Seneca Doe’s body exhumed and her DNA was extracted. —Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024

The case went cold until 2016, when police exhumed the remains from a remote corner of a cemetery in Lebanon, Pennsylviana, to obtain her DNA. —Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024

In another effort to identify her, officials, with the help of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, exhumed the girl's body from Mount Lebanon Cemetery in May 2016. —Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2024

With Charlie Hunnam in the leading role, season 3 will dive into the haunting story of Ed Gein, a notorious 1950s murderer who not only took multiple lives but also exhumed graves to create household and clothing items from human remains. —Jordana Comiter, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024

Now, in the converted space, on rows of stainless tables, lay 13,000 bones exhumed from 46 graves — and 62 caskets — from the cemetery on the hill above Honolulu. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024