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English
Etymology
From re- + exhume.
Verb
reexhume (third-person singular simple present reexhumes, present participle reexhuming, simple past and past participle reexhumed)
- To exhume again.
1969, Robert Katz, Black Sabbath: a journey through a crime against humanity, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 38:DNB, the German press agency, issued a statement from Mussolini, in which he ordered the Fascist party to reexhume itself and punish all traitors — a category of persons yet to be defined.
2012, A.A. Bello, The Great Chain of Being and Italian Phenomenology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 260:However, it is only in the field of superior (predicative) knowledge that true possession of the known object is realized, which can be used at will, “which we can reexhume at any time, and of which we can give news to other people.”
2019, D. M. Giangreco, Kathryn Moore, Dear Harry: Letters to President Truman, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 327:Even when servicemen were hastily interred within U.S. lines, it was difficult to reexhume, get positive identifications, and prepare the bodies for shipment to the United States in the heat of the emergency.