exhume
/ɪɡˈzum/
verb
- To dig up a dead body from a grave, especially for investigation or reburial.
- The police obtained a court order to exhume the body for a new autopsy.
- The family decided to exhume their grandfather's remains and move them to a different cemetery.
- Archaeologists carefully exhumed the ancient skeleton from the burial site.
- To bring something that was hidden, forgotten, or lost back to public attention.
- The journalist exhumed old documents that proved the company's fraud.
- The historian exhumed a long-lost diary that changed our understanding of the event.
- The museum's new exhibit exhumes the work of a once-famous but now obscure painter.
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