Exhume
verb
To dig up out of the ground (something buried, especially a dead body).
The police exhumed the body for further examination.
Often appears as...
- exhume a corpse
- exhume a body
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Formal
Academic
verb
To bring back into notice or use.
Her book exhumed the forgotten history of the city.
Often appears as...
- exhume a memory
- exhume a story
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Formal
Literary
verb
To dig up out of the ground (something buried, especially a dead body).
The police exhumed the body for further examination.
Often appears as...
- exhume a corpse
- exhume a body
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To bring back into notice or use.
Her book exhumed the forgotten history of the city.
Often appears as...
- exhume a memory
- exhume a story
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
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Pro Tip 1/3Forensic Connotations
Often used in a legal or forensic context, referring to recovering evidence.
Investigators were granted permission to exhume the grave.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Topic
Can be a sensitive subject due to its association with death and burial.
The decision to exhume the remains was met with controversy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Only Bodies
Can refer to digging up objects other than bodies for investigation or study.
The archaeologists exhumed ancient artifacts from the site.
Pro Tip 1/3Forensic Connotations
Often used in a legal or forensic context, referring to recovering evidence.
Investigators were granted permission to exhume the grave.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Topic
Can be a sensitive subject due to its association with death and burial.
The decision to exhume the remains was met with controversy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Only Bodies
Can refer to digging up objects other than bodies for investigation or study.
The archaeologists exhumed ancient artifacts from the site.
Pro Tip 1/3Forensic Connotations
Often used in a legal or forensic context, referring to recovering evidence.
Investigators were granted permission to exhume the grave.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensitive Topic
Can be a sensitive subject due to its association with death and burial.
The decision to exhume the remains was met with controversy.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Only Bodies
Can refer to digging up objects other than bodies for investigation or study.
The archaeologists exhumed ancient artifacts from the site.
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Fredy Peccerelli: A...
When we find the grave, we take out the dirt and eventually clean the body, document it, and exhume it. We literally bring the skeleton out of the ground. Once we have those bodies, though, we take them back to the city, to our lab, and we begin a process of trying to understand mainly two One is how people died.
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Charles Limb: Building...
Now the question comes to Is there any hope? And yes, there is hope. Now I don't know if anybody knows who this is. This is ... does somebody know? This is Beethoven. Now why would we know what Beethoven's skull looks like? Because his grave was exhumed.
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4 ways to build a human...
recently staged an extreme artistic intervention. With the permission of relatives, it exhumed the corpses of refugees who had drowned at Europe's borders, transported them all the way to Berlin, and then reburied them at the heart of the German capital.
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Life Among the Dead PIPE...
times a day Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any tenant the dead can be evicted if the rent isn't paid after five years the
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Amy Toensing: The...
so you bury the deceased and you leave their body in the ground until just bones remain. You exhume the bones; and then you find a log hollowed out by termites. And you paint the story of that person on the log, like they are here.
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Living Among the Dead PIPE...
Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any tenant the dead can be evicted if the rent isn't paid after five years the
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Tycho Brahe, the...
When his body was exhumed and studied in 2010, the legendary gold and silver nose was nowhere to be found, with chemical traces suggesting that he wore a more casual brass nose instead. Tycho's mustache hair was also found
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The impact of Simón...
much honor so much power and so much ingratitude so why is this a story that still speaks to that in Americans why is bolivars why have bolivars bones been exhumed and
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The rebel radio that...
They map old massacre sites, exhume and bury loved ones, and build sanctuaries and museums, all in the hope of pollinating a more just future.
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Scientists must be free...
Most don't. Truth is, we didn't find the virus, but we did develop new techniques to safely exhume bodies that might contain virus.
Video examples
Fredy Peccerelli: A...
When we find the grave, we take out the dirt and eventually clean the body, document it, and exhume it. We literally bring the skeleton out of the ground. Once we have those bodies, though, we take them back to the city, to our lab, and we begin a process of trying to understand mainly two One is how people died.
Video examples
Charles Limb: Building...
Now the question comes to Is there any hope? And yes, there is hope. Now I don't know if anybody knows who this is. This is ... does somebody know? This is Beethoven. Now why would we know what Beethoven's skull looks like? Because his grave was exhumed.
Video examples
4 ways to build a human...
recently staged an extreme artistic intervention. With the permission of relatives, it exhumed the corpses of refugees who had drowned at Europe's borders, transported them all the way to Berlin, and then reburied them at the heart of the German capital.
Video examples
Life Among the Dead PIPE...
times a day Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any tenant the dead can be evicted if the rent isn't paid after five years the
Video examples
Amy Toensing: The...
so you bury the deceased and you leave their body in the ground until just bones remain. You exhume the bones; and then you find a log hollowed out by termites. And you paint the story of that person on the log, like they are here.
Video examples
Living Among the Dead PIPE...
Rainey must exhume the dead with space and money scarce many poor families must rent burial sites here in what are called the apartments and like any tenant the dead can be evicted if the rent isn't paid after five years the
Video examples
Tycho Brahe, the...
When his body was exhumed and studied in 2010, the legendary gold and silver nose was nowhere to be found, with chemical traces suggesting that he wore a more casual brass nose instead. Tycho's mustache hair was also found
Video examples
The impact of Simón...
much honor so much power and so much ingratitude so why is this a story that still speaks to that in Americans why is bolivars why have bolivars bones been exhumed and
Video examples
The rebel radio that...
They map old massacre sites, exhume and bury loved ones, and build sanctuaries and museums, all in the hope of pollinating a more just future.
Video examples
Scientists must be free...
Most don't. Truth is, we didn't find the virus, but we did develop new techniques to safely exhume bodies that might contain virus.
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