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exhume

See also: exhumé

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɛks.ˈ(h)juːm/, /ɪɡ.ˈzjuːm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɛkˈ.s(j)um/, /ɪɡˈz(j)um/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Verb edit

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.
    • 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.
    The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.
  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.

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exhume

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

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exhume

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

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /eɡˈsume/ [eɣ̞ˈsu.me]
  • Rhymes: -ume
  • Syllabification: ex‧hu‧me

Verb edit

exhume

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