Definition of exhume in English:

exhume

verb ɛksˈ(h)juːmɪɡˈzjuːm

[with object]

1Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.
掘出；挖掘（埋藏的东西，尤指尸体）
the bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge
Example sentencesExamples
- Detectives have used DNA evidence to name a nightclub bouncer whose body was exhumed last month as the likely rapist and killer of three teenage girls almost 30 years ago.
- I was telling the kids that there was always a controversy over whether Taylor had been poisoned and that people were so curious that they finally exhumed his body to check it for poisons.
- Azemi obtained a court order to exhume the body and arrested the brother.
- Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter.
- Beneath a white tent, men in green forensic suits began the arduous task of exhuming her body.
- In East Timor, a few harassed policemen have the task of exhuming the bodies and collecting what evidence they can.
- However, his body was exhumed in 2001 and examined by a state pathologist, who found the main impact to Barron's skull was from a moving object, ‘most likely a motor vehicle’.
- Sixteen years later, his body was exhumed and returned to France, where it was eventually laid to rest in the Church of St. Germain-des-Pres.
- As a penalty, his corpse was exhumed and beheaded.
- As part of the evidence gathering process, they will ask Defra officials to exhume the carcasses of cows buried in October 2000-four months before the first case of foot-and-mouth was detected.
- The Pope was buried in the grottoes underneath St Peter's Basilica, on the site where Pope John XXIII had been laid to rest until his corpse was exhumed for public display upstairs in the basilica.
- Yesterday, Swindon police announced they were taking the unusual step of exhuming the body for a second post-mortem.
- After Toma's daughter complained, they arrested the men and charged them with illegally exhuming his corpse.
- Seven years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a Romantic fit, he had buried with her.
- As communal tension mounts, the district administration escorts the students out of the University to the nearby railway station before exhuming the carcass of the animal.
- Treloar's body was exhumed in 1923 and buried at Mungerannie.
- Collinson's body was exhumed earlier this month because an examination completed immediately after his death was not detailed enough, and had not been carried out by a Home Office-approved pathologist.
- I had already seen some photographs of the corpses being exhumed and reburied, and of the cemetery being built.
- He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.
Synonyms
disinter, dig up, unearth, bring out of the ground
rare disentomb, unbury, ungrave
1. 1.1Geology Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried.
  〔地质〕使（以前掩埋的地面）暴露出来
  various landforms have been exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments
  Example sentencesExamples
  The metamorphic core complex is thus formed as mid-crustal rocks are exhumed by tectonic unroofing in an extensional setting.
  These features probably form in the shallow subsurface and are exhumed by submarine erosion.
  Is the whole crustal section exhumed, or is only part of the subducted crust exhumed?
  The rocks exposed in the central Aegean region, in the area of the Cyclades, are generally Alpine metamorphic rocks and Miocene granites, which were unroofed by extension and erosion, being exhumed by the end of the Miocene.
  However, it is possible that this effect may be found wherever Mesozoic faults are exhumed to the sea bed or surface, and exhumation data measured in adjacent fault blocks should be projected across these faults with some circumspection.

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin exhumare, from ex- 'out of' + humus 'ground'.

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of exhume in US English:

exhume

verb

[with object]

1Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.
掘出；挖掘（埋藏的东西，尤指尸体）
the bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge
Example sentencesExamples
- After Toma's daughter complained, they arrested the men and charged them with illegally exhuming his corpse.
- I had already seen some photographs of the corpses being exhumed and reburied, and of the cemetery being built.
- As communal tension mounts, the district administration escorts the students out of the University to the nearby railway station before exhuming the carcass of the animal.
- I was telling the kids that there was always a controversy over whether Taylor had been poisoned and that people were so curious that they finally exhumed his body to check it for poisons.
- Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter.
- Treloar's body was exhumed in 1923 and buried at Mungerannie.
- The Pope was buried in the grottoes underneath St Peter's Basilica, on the site where Pope John XXIII had been laid to rest until his corpse was exhumed for public display upstairs in the basilica.
- Seven years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a Romantic fit, he had buried with her.
- Azemi obtained a court order to exhume the body and arrested the brother.
- Detectives have used DNA evidence to name a nightclub bouncer whose body was exhumed last month as the likely rapist and killer of three teenage girls almost 30 years ago.
- However, his body was exhumed in 2001 and examined by a state pathologist, who found the main impact to Barron's skull was from a moving object, ‘most likely a motor vehicle’.
- As part of the evidence gathering process, they will ask Defra officials to exhume the carcasses of cows buried in October 2000-four months before the first case of foot-and-mouth was detected.
- Sixteen years later, his body was exhumed and returned to France, where it was eventually laid to rest in the Church of St. Germain-des-Pres.
- Beneath a white tent, men in green forensic suits began the arduous task of exhuming her body.
- Yesterday, Swindon police announced they were taking the unusual step of exhuming the body for a second post-mortem.
- Collinson's body was exhumed earlier this month because an examination completed immediately after his death was not detailed enough, and had not been carried out by a Home Office-approved pathologist.
- He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.
- As a penalty, his corpse was exhumed and beheaded.
- In East Timor, a few harassed policemen have the task of exhuming the bodies and collecting what evidence they can.
Synonyms
disinter, dig up, unearth, bring out of the ground
1. 1.1usually be exhumedGeology Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried.
  〔地质〕使（以前掩埋的地面）暴露出来
  various landforms have been exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments
  Example sentencesExamples
  The rocks exposed in the central Aegean region, in the area of the Cyclades, are generally Alpine metamorphic rocks and Miocene granites, which were unroofed by extension and erosion, being exhumed by the end of the Miocene.
  Is the whole crustal section exhumed, or is only part of the subducted crust exhumed?
  The metamorphic core complex is thus formed as mid-crustal rocks are exhumed by tectonic unroofing in an extensional setting.
  However, it is possible that this effect may be found wherever Mesozoic faults are exhumed to the sea bed or surface, and exhumation data measured in adjacent fault blocks should be projected across these faults with some circumspection.
  These features probably form in the shallow subsurface and are exhumed by submarine erosion.

Origin

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

单词	exhume
释义	Definition of exhume in English: exhume verb ɛksˈ(h)juːmɪɡˈzjuːm [with object] 1Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground. 掘出；挖掘（埋藏的东西，尤指尸体） the bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge Example sentencesExamples Detectives have used DNA evidence to name a nightclub bouncer whose body was exhumed last month as the likely rapist and killer of three teenage girls almost 30 years ago. I was telling the kids that there was always a controversy over whether Taylor had been poisoned and that people were so curious that they finally exhumed his body to check it for poisons. Azemi obtained a court order to exhume the body and arrested the brother. Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter. Beneath a white tent, men in green forensic suits began the arduous task of exhuming her body. In East Timor, a few harassed policemen have the task of exhuming the bodies and collecting what evidence they can. However, his body was exhumed in 2001 and examined by a state pathologist, who found the main impact to Barron's skull was from a moving object, ‘most likely a motor vehicle’. Sixteen years later, his body was exhumed and returned to France, where it was eventually laid to rest in the Church of St. Germain-des-Pres. As a penalty, his corpse was exhumed and beheaded. As part of the evidence gathering process, they will ask Defra officials to exhume the carcasses of cows buried in October 2000-four months before the first case of foot-and-mouth was detected. The Pope was buried in the grottoes underneath St Peter's Basilica, on the site where Pope John XXIII had been laid to rest until his corpse was exhumed for public display upstairs in the basilica. Yesterday, Swindon police announced they were taking the unusual step of exhuming the body for a second post-mortem. After Toma's daughter complained, they arrested the men and charged them with illegally exhuming his corpse. Seven years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a Romantic fit, he had buried with her. As communal tension mounts, the district administration escorts the students out of the University to the nearby railway station before exhuming the carcass of the animal. Treloar's body was exhumed in 1923 and buried at Mungerannie. Collinson's body was exhumed earlier this month because an examination completed immediately after his death was not detailed enough, and had not been carried out by a Home Office-approved pathologist. I had already seen some photographs of the corpses being exhumed and reburied, and of the cemetery being built. He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall. Synonyms disinter, dig up, unearth, bring out of the ground rare disentomb, unbury, ungrave 1.1Geology Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried. 〔地质〕使（以前掩埋的地面）暴露出来 various landforms have been exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments Example sentencesExamples The metamorphic core complex is thus formed as mid-crustal rocks are exhumed by tectonic unroofing in an extensional setting. These features probably form in the shallow subsurface and are exhumed by submarine erosion. Is the whole crustal section exhumed, or is only part of the subducted crust exhumed? The rocks exposed in the central Aegean region, in the area of the Cyclades, are generally Alpine metamorphic rocks and Miocene granites, which were unroofed by extension and erosion, being exhumed by the end of the Miocene. However, it is possible that this effect may be found wherever Mesozoic faults are exhumed to the sea bed or surface, and exhumation data measured in adjacent fault blocks should be projected across these faults with some circumspection. Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin exhumare, from ex- 'out of' + humus 'ground'. Rhymes abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom Definition of exhume in US English: exhume verb [with object] 1Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground. 掘出；挖掘（埋藏的东西，尤指尸体） the bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge Example sentencesExamples After Toma's daughter complained, they arrested the men and charged them with illegally exhuming his corpse. I had already seen some photographs of the corpses being exhumed and reburied, and of the cemetery being built. As communal tension mounts, the district administration escorts the students out of the University to the nearby railway station before exhuming the carcass of the animal. I was telling the kids that there was always a controversy over whether Taylor had been poisoned and that people were so curious that they finally exhumed his body to check it for poisons. Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter. Treloar's body was exhumed in 1923 and buried at Mungerannie. The Pope was buried in the grottoes underneath St Peter's Basilica, on the site where Pope John XXIII had been laid to rest until his corpse was exhumed for public display upstairs in the basilica. Seven years later, he exhumed her corpse to rescue the sheaf of poems that, in a Romantic fit, he had buried with her. Azemi obtained a court order to exhume the body and arrested the brother. Detectives have used DNA evidence to name a nightclub bouncer whose body was exhumed last month as the likely rapist and killer of three teenage girls almost 30 years ago. However, his body was exhumed in 2001 and examined by a state pathologist, who found the main impact to Barron's skull was from a moving object, ‘most likely a motor vehicle’. As part of the evidence gathering process, they will ask Defra officials to exhume the carcasses of cows buried in October 2000-four months before the first case of foot-and-mouth was detected. Sixteen years later, his body was exhumed and returned to France, where it was eventually laid to rest in the Church of St. Germain-des-Pres. Beneath a white tent, men in green forensic suits began the arduous task of exhuming her body. Yesterday, Swindon police announced they were taking the unusual step of exhuming the body for a second post-mortem. Collinson's body was exhumed earlier this month because an examination completed immediately after his death was not detailed enough, and had not been carried out by a Home Office-approved pathologist. He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall. As a penalty, his corpse was exhumed and beheaded. In East Timor, a few harassed policemen have the task of exhuming the bodies and collecting what evidence they can. Synonyms disinter, dig up, unearth, bring out of the ground 1.1usually be exhumedGeology Expose (a land surface) that was formerly buried. 〔地质〕使（以前掩埋的地面）暴露出来 various landforms have been exhumed from beneath a covering of Triassic sediments Example sentencesExamples The rocks exposed in the central Aegean region, in the area of the Cyclades, are generally Alpine metamorphic rocks and Miocene granites, which were unroofed by extension and erosion, being exhumed by the end of the Miocene. Is the whole crustal section exhumed, or is only part of the subducted crust exhumed? The metamorphic core complex is thus formed as mid-crustal rocks are exhumed by tectonic unroofing in an extensional setting. However, it is possible that this effect may be found wherever Mesozoic faults are exhumed to the sea bed or surface, and exhumation data measured in adjacent fault blocks should be projected across these faults with some circumspection. These features probably form in the shallow subsurface and are exhumed by submarine erosion. Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin exhumare, from ex- ‘out of’ + humus ‘ground’.
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