Synonyms of exhumation

exhumation

noun

as in cremation

Related Words

• cremation
• disinterment
• unearthing

Dissimilar Words

• burial
• interment
• burying
• entombment
• inhumation
• funeral
• sepulture
• embalmment
• entombing
• interring
• obsequy
• inurnment
• immurement

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of exhumation

By 2007, it was discovered that DNA samples had not been collected, leading to exhumation of the body to obtain the sample. — Marc Anthony Lopez, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Regrettably, Anolik, who is almost singlehandedly responsible for Babitz’s literary exhumation, has so fallen in love with her subject as to almost blind her to Babitz’s defects, both with respect to her writing and to the life. — Steve Wasserman, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

The matter-of-factness of death, the performance of lament, the stages of a funeral—the funeral, the forty-day memorial, the exhumation of the body—make death not into a one-time event but a narrative. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

Since 2004, when exhumation and analysis of skeletal remains began for 49 Medici family tombs as part of the Medici Project, various studies have confirmed malaria as the cause of Francesco’s demise. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 15 July 2026

For seven years, Ukraine enforced a ban on the exhumation of Volhynia massacre victims, creating a major point of bilateral friction until the restriction was lifted in 2024. — Lidia Kurasinska, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

The case was solved years later through DNA evidence, along with the exhumation of the family dog, which prosecutors said Kovacich had kicked and beaten to death. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026

The Placer County Sheriff's Office said its agency requested exhumation of her remains in 2011 in hopes that newer forensic techniques could identify her. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026

Melissa Winnie’s mother, Shirley Greathouse, had been the one to advocate for her sister’s exhumation. — Audrey Abrahams, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026