exhume

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ex=hume

CIDE DICTIONARY

exhume, v. t. [LL. exhumare; L. ex out + humus ground, soil: cf. F. exhumer. See Humble.].

 To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.  Mantell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exhume, v.tr. dig out, unearth (esp. a buried corpse).

Derivative

exhumation n.

Etymology

F exhumer f. med.L exhumare (as EX-(1), humus ground)

ROGET THESAURUS

exhume

The Past

VB be past, have expired, have run its course, have had its day, pass, pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off, lapse, blow over, look back, trace back, cast the eyes back, exhume.

Interment

VB inter, bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel, inurn, exhume, disinter, unearth.