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Meanings of exhume in English

Portuguese
exumar
Spanish
desenterrar

Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies.

exumar
Usage of exhume in English
1
But the decision to exhume the body initially divided Emmett's remaining family.
The Guardian
2
We might exhume the body: what would that prove after three months?
Blind Love
3
A government commission formed and a team was assembled to exhume the deceased.
Bones of the Lost
4
Mr Tau expected Tuhoe to defy any ruling to exhume Mr Takamore's body.
Radio NZ
5
The rest of us traipsed off day after day to exhume the past.
Girl, Interrupted
6
She is there to exhume the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood.
Death du Jour
7
The archdiocese wanted me to exhume and analyze the remains of a saint.
Death du Jour
8
I want to exhume the stories of the people who dreamed.
Ebony
9
If we can carefully exhume him, we may find out how he died.
A nose for justice
10
It is pointless to exhume the reasons for his absence from our national team.
The Guardian
11
Investigators will probably exhume Mr Khan's body, Mr Cina added.
The Irish Times
12
And it would hardly be decent to exhume the remains.
Burned Bridges
13
In this marginal space, two sisters exhume their past traumas.
The Irish Times
14
They exhume the paralyzed man from his sheets and change his clothes opposite me.
Light
15
But we exhume them from old documents to show how these things were done.
Policing the Plains / Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous N...
16
Now outraged investors want to exhume the founder's body to make sure he's really dead.
Wired
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Translations for exhume
Portuguese
exumar
Exhume through the time