exhume

Latin ex and humāre (“to bury”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛks.ˈ(h)juːm/, /ɪɡ.ˈzjuːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈ.s(j)um/, /ɪɡˈz(j)um/

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exhume (third-person singular simple present exhumes, present participle exhuming, simple past and past participle exhumed)

1. (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

   The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To uncover; to bring to light.
   • 2009, S. E. Wilmer, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories (page 47)

     Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.

• dig up, disinter, unbury, unearth

• bury, inhume, inter

• exhumation
• exhumer

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zym/

exhume

1. first-person singular present indicative of exhumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of exhumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
5. second-person singular imperative of exhumer

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈsume/, [eɣˈsume]

exhume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exhumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exhumar.