Exhume

Quick meaning: Exhume is a verb meaning (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

Meaning

(transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figurative) To uncover; to bring to light.

Example Sentences

Long dead traditions are exhumed just for the tourists.

The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.

Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.

Word Forms

• exhumes
• exhuming
• exhumed

Synonyms for exhume

Depending on context, synonyms include disinter, unbury, unearth.

Antonyms for exhume

Common opposites include bury, inhume, inter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disinter, extract, exhumate, disinhume, untomb, reexhume.

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