exhumev.
/ɛksˈhjuːm/, /ᵻɡˈzjuːm/, /ɛɡˈzjuːm/, U.S. /ɪɡˈz(j)um/, /ɛɡˈz(j)um/ 1.
a. transitive. To dig out or remove (something buried) from beneath the ground.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > exhumation > exhume or disentomb [verb (transitive)]
undelve1340
unbury14..
exhumate1548
untomb1594
detomb1607
disentomb1611
disinter1611
distomb1629
deter1632
undig1641
ungrave1664
exhume1783
disinhume1821
dishume1854
unsepulchre1856
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > dig out or up
delvec1000
upgravea1340
undelve1340
grubc1374
to dig upc1400
to dig outa1425
unearthc1450
sprittle1585
effode1657
to cast up1660
exhume1783
moot1823
excavate1848
lift1883
spud1886
pig-root1890
1783 R. Watson Hist. Philip III (L.) More than a dozen bodies were thus unnecessarily exhumed.
1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art I. 140 It was not the manner of those days to exhume..the bodies of holy men.
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 643 Bones that have been exhumed by the waves.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 48 No less than 17 canoes had been..exhumed.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) viii. 112 The wild animals might have exhumed the body.
b. transferred and figurative. To unearth, bring to light.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > by searching or tracking down > and bring to light
to search outc1425
to hunt out1576
unrip?1576
to ferret out1577
to fetch up1608
fish1632
prog1655
rummage1797
rout1814
exhume1819
excavate1840
ferret up1847
unearth1863
fossick?1870
exhumate1881
1819 W. Scott Let. 3 Oct. (1933) V. 507 I..go a day sooner to exhume certain old monuments of the Rutherfords at Jedburgh.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. iii. 233 The letters of the royal assassin..were exhumed.
1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism I. i. 104 The industry of modern antiquarians has exhumed two or three obscure works.
2. To remove the overlying soil from. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > remove overlying soil from
exhume1872
1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 31 When we exhume an old land-surface the remains of Mammals may be found in tolerable plenty.
Derivatives
exˈhumed adj. (in quots. figurative).
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > disclosed or revealed
disclosea1393
overtc1400
discovered1537
outgrown1549
disclosed1579
uncased1598
unfolded1602
unclasped1609
unbreasted1610
undisguised1671
revealed1827
disburied1835
exhumed1840
unbared1879
1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 19 They will give to those, as it were, exhumed verities a degree of weight and prominence.
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. xii. 356 The aborigines of these new and exhumed regions.
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