EXHUME


Meaning of EXHUME in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ekshju:m, AM ɪgzu:m ]

( exhumes, exhuming, exhumed)

If a dead person’s body is exhumed , it is taken out of the ground where it is buried, especially so that it can be examined in order to find out how the person died. ( FORMAL )

His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens, New York City.

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed

• ex‧hu‧ma‧tion

(exhumations)

Detectives ordered the exhumation when his wife said she believed he had been killed.

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