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Definition of exhume : To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

Synonyms:

excavate, disentomb, reveal, unbury, disclose, disinhume, dig up, disinter

Usage examples:

• At last he shut the book, and, laying it down, proceeded to exhume a morning coat. - "Six Months at the Cape", R.M. Ballantyne.
• 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. - "Unexplored!", Allen Chaffee.
• Nor this alone: its destiny may doom it To outlive e'en its use and history- Some ploughman of the future may exhume it From soil now deep beneath the eastern sea. - "Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce", E. R. Billings.