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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To remove from a grave; disinter.
  2. v. To bring to light, especially after a period of obscurity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To dig out of the earth, as something, especially a dead body, which has been buried; disinter.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Latin ex and humāre ("to bury") (Wiktionary)
  2. French exhumer, from Medieval Latin exhumāre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin humus, ground; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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