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   exhume

   /ɛksˈhjuːm/

   verb

   • 1. dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground: "the bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge"
   • ▪ expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried: "various landforms have been exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from medieval Latin exhumare, from ex- ‘out of’ + humus ‘ground’.

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