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- pronunciation:
- ihg
zyum
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ihg
zum
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
exhumes, exhuming, exhumed |
| definition 1: |
to dig out, esp. from a grave; disinter.
Police ordered the body to be exhumed and a forensic autopsy to be carried out.- antonyms:
- bury, entomb, inhume, inter
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| definition 2: |
to revive or restore to prominence, esp. after a period of obscurity.
New evidence forced physicists to exhume a previously discarded theory.- antonyms:
- lay to rest
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| related words: |
excavate |
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| derivations: |
exhumation (n.), exhumer (n.) |
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