Exhume [verb]
Definition of Exhume:
dig up, especially the dead
Sentence/Example of Exhume:
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.
When a tribe quits one place to reside at another, they exhume the bones of their relations, and take them with them.
At last he shut the book, and, laying it down, proceeded to exhume a morning coat.
Deprived of the requisite authority, it was unable to do more than exhume the old laws on the matter and ordain new ones.
It is from among its ruins that the wondering fellah and explorer of to-day exhume the gorgeous relics of its past.
He might as well have tried to exhume his baby son and blow in the breath of life between the folded lips.
Do you seriously expect me to get an order to exhume him now?
He threatened to revive the story, to exhume your body, and to say that Aldina Ringwood had told him all about the will.
Early one Sunday morning the widow, accompanied by the bank manager and the undertaker, left town to exhume the remains.
"Unless they watched me exhume it, and feared the consequences if it fell into your hands," I suggested.