exhumation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exhumation (countable and uncountable, plural exhumations)

1. The act of digging up that which has been buried.

Synonyms

• disinterment

Antonyms

• burial, inhumation, interment

Related terms

• exhume

Translations

the act of digging up that which has been buried

• Armenian: արտաշիրմում (artaširmum)
• Belarusian: эксгума́цыя f (ekshumácyja), выко́пванне n (vykópvannje)
• Bulgarian: изра́вяне n (izrávjane), ексхума́ция f (ekshumácija)
• Catalan: exhumació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發掘／发掘 (zh) (fājué)

• Czech: exhumace f
• Finnish: ylös kaivaminen; ekshumaatio
• French: exhumation (fr) f
• Galician: exhumación (gl)
• Georgian: ექსჰუმაცია (ekshumacia)
• German: Exhumierung (de) f, Enterdigung (de) f
• Greek: εκταφή (el) f (ektafí)
• Hebrew: הוֹצָאָה מִן הַקֶּבֶר f (hotsa'á min hakéver)
• Hungarian: kihantolás (hu), exhumálás (hu)
• Irish: dí-adhlacadh m
• Italian: esumazione f
• Japanese: 発掘 (ja) (はっくつ, hakkutsu)
• Korean: 발굴(發掘) (ko) (balgul)
• Macedonian: ексхумација f (ekshumacija)
• Maori: hahunga, ehunga
• Polish: ekshumacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: exumação (pt) f
• Romanian: exhumare (ro) f
• Russian: эксгума́ция (ru) f (eksgumácija), выка́пывание (ru) n (vykápyvanije) (тру́па)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ексхума́ција f

  Roman: ekshumácija (sh) f

• Slovak: exhumácia f
• Slovene: ekshumacija f, izkop m
• Spanish: exhumación (es) f
• Turkish: ekshumasyon
• Ukrainian: ексгума́ція f (ekshumácija), вико́пування n (vykópuvannja)

French

Etymology

From exhumer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zy.ma.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

exhumation f (plural exhumations)

1. exhumation

Further reading

• “exhumation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.