— exhumation /eks'hyoo may"sheuhn/ , n. — exhumer , n.
/ig zoohm", -zyoohm", eks hyoohm"/ , v.t., exhumed, exhuming .
1. to dig (something buried, esp. a dead body) out of the earth; disinter.
2. to revive or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting; bring to light: to exhume a literary reputation; to exhume old letters.
[ 1400-50; late ME exhumare, equiv. to L ex- EX- 1 + humare to inter ]