exhume

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In all honesty, family obligations have taken a step up in the past week and there are some important things that need to be addressed which prevented me from stealing a few hours to exhume, and digi-ma-tize some "new" old stuff for your delectation.

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

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  • Hindu Action Network executive council member N. Ahilan said the board reserved the right to exhume the remains and lease the plot to others if the renewal fees were not paid within 10 years.
  • To inaugurate what we suspect will be an even more irregularly scheduled feature devoted to these very special films, today we exhume Guy Ritchie's —  GreenCine Daily
  • I exhume Telluride because it explains, in part, similar difficulties that I found with Lucky Number Slevin, which I've slagged previously? —  GreenCine Daily
  • Ed Gein would skin his victims, exhume corpses and then decorate his home with parts of their bodies and use the skin to make clothes and furniture items. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • If there is even a remote chance of being able to get DNA, why not exhume her body and take that chance? —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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  1. French exhumer, from Medieval Latin exhumāre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin humus, ground; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French exhumer = Spanish Portuguese exhumar = Italian esumare, from Middle Latin exhumare, dig out of the ground, from Latin ex, out, + humus, the ground: see humus. Cf. inhume.
 

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