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exhume


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Exhume  \Ex*hume"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Exhumed}p.  pr  &  vb  n.. 
  {Exhuming}.]  [LL.  exhumare  L.  ex  out  +  humus  ground,  soil: 
  cf  F.  exhumer.  See  {Humble}.] 
  To  dig  out  of  the  ground;  to  take  out  of  a  place  of  burial; 
  to  disinter.  --Mantell. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  exhume 
  v  :  dig  up  for  reburial  or  for  medical  investigation;  of  dead 
  bodies  [syn:  {disinter}] 




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