EXHUME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they exhume ... he / she / it exhumes

Past simple: exhumed

Past participle: exhumed

-ing form: exhuming

Meaning:

Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies

Synonyms:

disinter; exhume

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "exhume" is one way to...):

dig up; excavate; turn up (find by digging in the ground)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

exhumation (the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried)