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Synonyms for exhume

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ig-zoom, -zyoom, eks-hyoom
Phonetic Transcription : ɪgˈzum, -ˈzyum, ɛksˈhyum

Définition of exhume

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Medieval Latin exhumare "to unearth" (13c.), from Latin ex- "out of" (see ex-) + humare "bury," from humus "earth" (see chthonic). An alternative form was exhumate (1540s), taken directly from Medieval Latin. Related: Exhumed; exhuming.
  • verb dig up, especially the dead
Example sentences :
  • But we exhume them from old documents to show how these things were done.
  • Extract from : « Policing the Plains » by R.G. MacBeth
  • Do you seriously expect me to get an order to exhume him now?
  • Extract from : « Dead Ringer » by Lester del Rey
  • It is always a difficult task to exhume such buried treasure, for some preternatural guardian or other will be found on the alert.
  • Extract from : « The Ghost World » by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
  • Besides, it was not our custom to exhume the bodies of those who had been buried.
  • Extract from : « Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States » by Cyrus Thomas
  • Of what use would it be to exhume Mr. Brockelsby after the doctors had cut him up?
  • Extract from : « The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton » by Wardon Allan Curtis
  • It would be cruel to exhume those antique judgments, so honest, yet so imbecile and so mistaken.
  • Extract from : « Transcendentalism in New England » by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
  • And do thou too pursue thy work, and exhume and stir up thy thought.
  • Extract from : « The Insect » by Jules Michelet
  • He threatened to revive the story, to exhume your body, and to say that Aldina Ringwood had told him all about the will.
  • Extract from : « A Stable for Nightmares » by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Early one Sunday morning the widow, accompanied by the bank manager and the undertaker, left town to exhume the remains.
  • Extract from : « Reminiscences of Queensland » by William Henry Corfield
  • At last he shut the book, and, laying it down, proceeded to exhume a morning coat.
  • Extract from : « Six Months at the Cape » by R.M. Ballantyne

Antonyms for exhume

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