OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 13429

exhume

/ɛksˈ(h)juːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
exhumar
To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
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…
The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.