to exhume

verbformal/ezumɑɾ/rare

e·xu·mar

Definition

To remove from the ground; to dig up, especially a corpse.

Permission to exhume the body was granted.

They exhumed the remains for further analysis.

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Common collocations

exhume a bodyexhume remains

Do latim 'exhumare' (tirar da terra).