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How to pronounce exhume in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms disinter
Type of dig up, excavate, turn up
Derivation exhumation

Examples of exhume

exhume
Requests to exhume the body in the past have been denied by the cemetery board.
From the chron.com
Relatives can ask to exhume a family member's remains for burial in another site.
From the denverpost.com
When they went to exhume the body, the grave contained someone else's remains.
From the suntimes.com
Reason enough to exhume the hoary old horror and reissue its haunting license.
From the time.com
It's hardly surprising that a band would feel the time was right to exhume Britpop.
From the guardian.co.uk
Authorities said last week they were seeking permission to exhume Lazcano's parents.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Johnson said Nebraska authorities rejected his request to exhume the body.
From the omaha.com
It was not clear how quickly the DeCiccos might move to exhume the bodies.
From the stltoday.com
Elsie Poncher plans to exhume her husband and move him to an adjacent plot.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Scott employs Domino to exhume Jean's grave and swap her body with another.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A judge allowed Marino's mother, Sherry Marino, to exhume the body to conduct DNA tests.
From the suntimes.com
With Stacy Peterson still missing, police decided to exhume Savio's body.
From the abcnews.go.com
The body of his bride, dead of cancer for five months, cost $3 to exhume.
From the time.com
I wrote last week of the prognosis for ACT, so no need to exhume their recent problems.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Using Lamarr's name could have been a gambit to exhume his reputation.
From the sfgate.com
Investigators have asked to exhume the bodies of victims, but families have so far refused.
From the time.com
Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities.
From the time.com
When they exhume their bodies, they find the baby's casket is empty.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Disinter: dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
  • (exhumation) the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
  • Burial (as in berry, or), also called interment and inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.
  • (Exhumed (band)) Exhumed is an American death metal band from San Jose. They were most recently signed to Relapse Records. Formed in 1990, when sole remaining founding member Matt Harvey was at the age of 15. ...
  • (Exhumed (video game)) PowerSlave (Exhumed in European territories and Seireki 1999: Pharaoh no Fukkatsu in Japan; the US title being a clear reference to the Iron Maiden album Powerslave which features Egyptian art on its cover) is a first-person shooter developed by Lobotomy Software and ...
  • To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter
  • (Exhumation) to excavate a corpse from a grave
  • (exhumation) The process (involving uplift and erosion) that returns deeply buried rocks to the surface.
  • To dig up the remains; to remove from the place of burial.