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exhume

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ex·hume  (g-zm, -zym, k-sym, ks-hym)
tr.v. ex·humed, ex·hum·ing, ex·humes
1. To remove from a grave; disinter.
2. To bring to light, especially after a period of obscurity.
[French exhumer, from Medieval Latin exhumre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin humus, ground; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]
exhu·mation (gzy-mshn, kshy-) n.
ex·humer n.
exhume [ig-zyume]
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[-huming, -humed] Formal to dig up something buried, esp. a corpse [Latin ex out + humus the ground]
exhumation n
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Verb1.exhume - dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
disinter
dig up, excavate, turn up - find by digging in the ground; "I dug up an old box in the garden"
exhume
verb dig up, unearth, disinter, unbury, disentomb << OPPOSITE bury

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It was not yet dark when he reached the tribe, though he stopped to exhume and devour the remains of the wild boar he had cached the preceding day, and again to take Kulonga's bow and arrows from the tree top in which he had hidden them.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
They caught him in mid-step--one of those fancy steps which he was just beginning to exhume from the cobwebbed recesses of his memory--and swept him away.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
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