Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove from a grave; disinter.
- transitive verb To bring to light, especially after a period of obscurity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dig out of the earth, as something, especially a dead body, which has been buried; disinter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of
burial ; todisinter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His uncollected journalism can "exhume" the social good that Jack London did.
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He said in the event of a proper burial being impractical - such as in the case of a mine disaster - traditional healers could be called in to "exhume" the lost spirits.
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Next spring, forensic anthropologists will exhume the row of chancel graves, which might contain the remains of the fort's first minister or Sir Ferdinando Wenman, a knight who arrived in 1610 to rally the fort's starving few and aid the colony's historic turnaround.
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Alternately re-creating daily life and picking, brick by symbolic brick, at the abundant archaeological and psychological detritus, she proceeds to exhume, analyze, and reconstitute the time and place in a manner pleasing to traditionalists, revisionists, and inevitabilists alike.
Cover to Cover 2009
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Peterson's third wife Kathleen was found drowned in a bathtub, and although her death was initially ruled as accidental, Stacy's suspicious disappearance later prompted authorities to exhume Kathleen's body.
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The title song, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, was recorded by a number of big bands at the time, but the only singers to exhume it over the years were scholarly inclined divas like Barbara Lea and Marlene VerPlanck.
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Bozo The Neoclown says: perhaps as a “half-time show” they can exhume the remains of charlie heston and pry the gun from his “cold, dead hands” on the stairs of the capitol?
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United States was allowed to exhume his remains, but for decades they lay in Hawaii as an unknown soldier.
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Bozo The Neoclown says: ten bucks says pattycakes would fellate saint ronnie if we were to exhume to corpse.
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And if Carter's gone back to the dismal years 1977-80 to exhume diary material, what comes next?
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