exhume

/ig-zoom, -zyoom, eks-hyoom/US // ɪgˈzum, -ˈzyum, ɛksˈhyum //UK // (ɛksˈhjuːm) //

挖出,掘出,发掘,掘出尸体

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
ex·humed, ex·hum·ing.
- : to dig out of the earth; disinter.
- : to revive or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting; bring to light: to exhume a literary reputation; to exhume old letters.

verbdig up, especially the dead

Synonyms

Experts from the Harvard laboratory of geneticist David Reich extracted DNA from the bones of 29 people exhumed from the cemetery more than 40 years ago for a road project and identified five, maybe six, family groups.
Denmark is now in the process of exhuming and burning those carcasses.
Once a committee gets legal authorization to exhume the remains, they’ll be DNA-tested.
As of Friday, two dozen bodies had been exhumed but police believe there could be 40 or more.
A team of scientists is set to exhume the former Palestinian leader's body on Tuesday in order to find out.
Exhume , to dig out of the ground, or in the case of a fossil, to take out of its place of burial in the rock.
When a tribe quits one place to reside at another, they exhume the bones of their relations, and take them with them.
At last he shut the book, and, laying it down, proceeded to exhume a morning coat.
Deprived of the requisite authority, it was unable to do more than exhume the old laws on the matter and ordain new ones.
It is from among its ruins that the wondering fellah and explorer of to-day exhume the gorgeous relics of its past.

/ig-zoom, -zyoom, eks-hyoom/US // ɪgˈzum, -ˈzyum, ɛksˈhyum //UK // (ɛksˈhjuːm) //

挖出,掘出,发掘,掘出尸体

v.有主动词 verb

1
ex·humed, ex·hum·ing.
- : to dig out of the earth; disinter.
- : to revive or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting; bring to light: to exhume a literary reputation; to exhume old letters.

verbdig up, especially the dead

Synonyms

Experts from the Harvard laboratory of geneticist David Reich extracted DNA from the bones of 29 people exhumed from the cemetery more than 40 years ago for a road project and identified five, maybe six, family groups.
Denmark is now in the process of exhuming and burning those carcasses.
Once a committee gets legal authorization to exhume the remains, they’ll be DNA-tested.
As of Friday, two dozen bodies had been exhumed but police believe there could be 40 or more.
A team of scientists is set to exhume the former Palestinian leader's body on Tuesday in order to find out.
Exhume , to dig out of the ground, or in the case of a fossil, to take out of its place of burial in the rock.
When a tribe quits one place to reside at another, they exhume the bones of their relations, and take them with them.
At last he shut the book, and, laying it down, proceeded to exhume a morning coat.
Deprived of the requisite authority, it was unable to do more than exhume the old laws on the matter and ordain new ones.
It is from among its ruins that the wondering fellah and explorer of to-day exhume the gorgeous relics of its past.