exhume
verb
, igz-ˈyüm, iks-ˈ(h)yüm\
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, ˌeg-zü- , ˌegz-yü- \
noun
, igz-ˈyü- , iks-ˈ(h)yü- \
noun
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bury, entomb, inhume, inter, tomb
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The location is a few hundred yards from where the remains of seven former students exhumed in 2015 were recently reburied. — Jim Turner, orlandosentinel.com, "Search for more remains resumes in July at notorious Dozier School for Boys in Marianna," 21 June 2019 State Chief Medical Examiner James Gill had submitted the request to Hardy in April seeking a court order to exhume the bodies of two female victims, and Hardy took the next step by filing a motion seeking a judge’s permission to do so. — Steven Goode, courant.com, "Judge delays ruling in efforts to identify unknown victims of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire," 17 June 2019 Iraq’s Yazidi minority, the target of a genocidal campaign by Islamic State, complains Baghdad isn’t doing enough to exhume or at least preserve mass graves as evidence of the crimes committed against them. — Isabel Coles, WSJ, "Syria Unearths ISIS Mass Graves Near Iraqi Border," 13 Dec. 2018 The amendments to Spain's Historical Memory Law of 2007 grant the government power to exhume Franco's body. — Fox News, "Spain sets in motion plan to dig up former dictator Franco," 24 Aug. 2018 After the ninth body was exhumed, the recovery team waited for people with missing relatives to come examine and identify the day’s disinterred. — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, "To Rebuild a Syrian City, Men First Dig Up and Rebury the Dead," 26 Oct. 2018 The family managed to have his body exhumed for an autopsy in 2009. — Eva Vergara, USA TODAY, "Ex-soldiers convicted of killing Chilean singer Victor Jara after 1973 coup," 5 July 2018 My grandfather submitted a DNA sample that confirmed the brother’s remains, still intact other than the fatal bullet entry wound in the skull, which were exhumed and ceremoniously interred at Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver. — Francine Maroukian, Popular Mechanics, "What Is Aquavit, and Why Are They Suddenly Making Scandinavian Booze in Colorado?," 24 Feb. 2019 The family managed to have his body exhumed for an autopsy in 2009. — Eva Vergara, USA TODAY, "Ex-soldiers convicted of killing Chilean singer Victor Jara after 1973 coup," 5 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'exhume.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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, iks-ˈ(h)yüm
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