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# exhume

«exhume» in Mova's school dictionary: **To dig up a body that has been buried, usually to examine…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (exhumes, exhumed, exhuming)

### meaning for a pupil

To dig up a body that has been buried, usually to examine it or move it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhume/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales of the dead who rise again, a grave is opened and the body is dug up and looked at

### examples

- The police exhumed the coffin to check the evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhume/#x1)
- In the story the grave was opened and the body was exhumed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhume/#x2)
- Archaeologists exhume old bones with great care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhume/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «exhume» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/exhume/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.