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.
N-VAR