(~s, exhuming, ~d)
If a dead person’s body is ~d, 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 ~d from a cemetery in Queen’s, New York City.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
exhumation (exhumations)
Detectives ordered the exhumation when his wife said she believed he had been killed.
N-VAR