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    [Verb]  | "ex*hume" | \ ig-ˈzüm \


    1: disinter

    2: to bring back from neglect or obscurity

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, from Medieval Latin exhumare, from Latin ex out of + humus earth , {mat|humble|};

    [Verb]  | "exhume" 


    1: to remove from place of burial;


      * e.g., " ... the remains of John Paul Jones were exhumed in Paris and transported with great ceremony to the U.S. Naval Academy "




     

     

     

     

     


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