exhume
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verb (used with object), ex·humed, ex·hum·ing.
1.
to dig (something buried, especially a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
2.
to revive or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting; bring to light: to exhume a literary reputation; to exhume old letters.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin exhumāre, equivalent to Latin ex- ex-1 + humāre to inter
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin exhumāre, equivalent to Latin ex- ex-1 + humāre to inter
Related forms
hyʊˈmeɪ ex·hum·er, noun
un·ex·humed, adjective
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to dig up (something buried, esp a corpse); disinter |
| 2. | to reveal; disclose; unearth: don't exhume that old argument |
| [C18: from Medieval Latin exhumāre, from Latin | |
| exhumation | |
| —n | |
| ex'humer | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
exhume
1783, from Fr. exhumer, from M.L. exhumare, from L. ex- "out of" + humare "bury," from humus "earth." An earlier form was exhumate (1540s), taken directly from the M.L. Related: Exhumed; exhuming
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Example sentences
Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities.
Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that prisoners were forced to exhume bodies.
High-discharge events may exhume such isolated pools and deliver additional contaminants to discharge points.
Someone who not only knows where the bodies are buried but also knows how to exhume them.
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