| 单词 | exhume |
| 释义 | exhume (once / 6277 pages) v When you see your mysterious neighbor digging around in his backyard, you may wonder if he’s trying to exhume something. Chances are he’s only digging up potatoes — when you exhume something, it means you’re digging up a corpse. The word exhume traces back to the Latin word exhumare, a combination of ex-, meaning “out of,” and humus, or “ground.” That meaning holds true today: when you exhume something, you dig it up out of the ground. The word almost always applies to the removing of a previously buried corpse, such as law enforcement officials who exhume a body to perform an autopsy or collect evidence related to an investigation. WORD FAMILYexhume: exhumation, exhumed, exhumes, exhuming+/exhumation: exhumations USAGE EXAMPLESInvestigators also exhumed Lawless’ body in October 2013 from a Benton cemetery, collecting DNA samples for possible future testing. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) As if that weren’t enough, poor Beethoven was exhumed twice. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) For example, in one of EMAF’s cases in another state, they eventually won the right to exhume a body to confirm a DNA identification. Science Magazine(Dec 14, 2016) v dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies Syn|Hyper disinter dig up, excavate, turn up find by digging in the ground |
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