Meaning & use
Exhumation
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the act of digging up a buried body or object from the ground, typically for legal or investigative purposes.
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The court ordered the exhumation of the remains to confirm the cause of death.
Archaeologists carried out a careful exhumation of the ancient burial site.
A note on using this word
From Latin "exhumare" ("ex-" out of + "humus" ground), literally meaning to take out of the earth.
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