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exhume(dictionary)

exhume (iou)



exhume verb trans. LME.
[medieval Latin exhumare, from Latin EX-1 1 + humus ground.]
Dig out, unearth, (lit. & fig.); remove (something buried) from beneath the ground; esp. disinter a body with legal permission. LME.
Geology. Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried. Chiefly as exhumed ppl adjective. L19.
exhumer noun a person who exhumes something M19.