exhume

From Medieval Latin exhumō, from Latin ex- + humō (“to bury”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛksˈ(h)juːm/, /ɪɡˈzjuːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈs(j)um/, /ɪɡˈz(j)um/

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• Rhymes: -uːm

exhume (third-person singular simple present exhumes, present participle exhuming, simple past and past participle exhumed)

1. (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

   The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 126:

     Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.

2. (transitive, figurative) To uncover; to bring to light.
   • 2009, S. E. Wilmer, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories, page 47:

     Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.

• dig up, disinter, unbury, unearth

• bury, inhume, inter

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zym/

exhume

1. inflection of exhumer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

exhume

1. inflection of exhumar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈsume/
• Rhymes: -ume
• Syllabification: ex‧hu‧me

exhume

1. inflection of exhumar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative