'Exhume' definitions:
verb
Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies [syn:
disinter, exhume]
- Exhume \Ex*hume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhumedp. pr. & vb. n..
Exhuming.] [LL. exhumare; L. ex out + humus ground, soil:
cf. F. exhumer. See Humble.]
To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial;
to disinter. --Mantell.
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