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US
/ɛksˈhjum/
]
[ UK /ɛɡzjˈuːm/ ]
[ UK /ɛɡzjˈuːm/ ]
VERB
- dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
How To Use exhume In A Sentence
- Bozo The Neoclown says: ten bucks says pattycakes would fellate saint ronnie if we were to exhume to corpse. Think Progress » Obama: I’d rather be a ‘really good one-term president’ than ‘mediocre two-term president.’
- Bozo The Neoclown says: perhaps as a “half-time show” they can exhume the remains of charlie heston and pry the gun from his “cold, dead hands” on the stairs of the capitol? Think Progress » Gun Advocates Plan DC March On 15th Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing
- A DNA sample taken from the exhumed body of the A6 murderer James Hanratty has reportedly confirmed his guilt.
- A slight shudder slid over him, footsteps on his grave, a shadowy ghoul with its gargoyle grin threatening to exhume long-buried corpses.
- The title song, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, was recorded by a number of big bands at the time, but the only singers to exhume it over the years were scholarly inclined divas like Barbara Lea and Marlene VerPlanck. Hard-Bop, Key Chops And Country Stomps
- Galluzzi said he was waiting for permission from the church to exhume the body and then would form a committee of historians, scientists and doctors to oversee the project.
- He said in the event of a proper burial being impractical - such as in the case of a mine disaster - traditional healers could be called in to "exhume" the lost spirits. ANC Daily News Briefing
- By the time they reach their teens, the kids will probably have exhumed my body and stuck my head on a pike.
- The exhumers, Sheffield-based UK Exhumation Service Ltd, have already accidentally unearthed a historic crypt, when the ground collapsed under the weight of a digger.
- BUCHAREST: Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena's remains will be exhumed on Wednesday from a Bucharest graveyard in order to check their identity, their son in law Mircea Opran said. The Times of India