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Exhume   /ɛkshjˈum/   Listen
Exhume

verb
(past & past part. exhumed; pres. part. exhuming)
1.
Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies.  Synonym: disinter.





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"Exhume" Quotes from Famous Books



... skillfully to the subject of the eighth commandment, and then said: "Talking about stealing, did I ever tell you that I was a burglar myself for about six years?" Jimmy was reticent. All that was over, he told himself. He had given it up. He had buried the past. Why exhume it? It did not occur to him to confess his New York crimes to Molly any more than to tell her that, when seven, he had been ...
— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse


Words linked to "Exhume" :   turn up, exhumation, dig up, disinter, excavate


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