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exhume verb [ ɛksˈ(h)juːm ]

• dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.
• "the bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge"
Similar: disinter, dig up, unearth, bring out of the ground, disentomb, unbury, ungrave,
Opposite: bury,
Origin: late Middle English: from medieval Latin exhumare, from ex- ‘out of’ + humus ‘ground’.

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