exhuming
Digging up remains
Exhuming is digging up something that was buried, especially a corpse: They exhumed the body for a second autopsy.
The word extends to bringing forgotten things back to light: The biographer spent years exhuming obscure letters and diaries.
To exhume is to reverse interment—whether literal burial or figurative obscurity.
Excavating a grave
- autopsyMedical examination after death
- remainsContinues in place
- coffinBurial container for remains
- casketBurial container
coroner · forensic · investigation · reburial · cadaver · decomposition · skeletal · morgue
Revealing something hidden
- resurfacingComing up again
- revisitingGoing back again
- dredging upRetrieving from below
- unearthingDiscovering something hidden
revealing · reopening · past · memories · secrets · scandal · history · forgotten
disinterment
Excavating a grave
casket · coroner · forensic · investigation · reburial · cadaver · decomposition · skeletal · morgue · identification
uncovering
Revealing something hidden
- resurfacingComing up again
- revisitingGoing back again
- dredging upRetrieving from below
unearthing · revealing · reopening · past · memories · secrets · scandal · history · forgotten · buried
excavation
Act of unearthing
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- mummyEmbalmed, wrapped ancient body
sarcophagus · artifacts · preservation · ancient · pharaoh · crypt · catacomb · ossuary · relics · anthropology
exhumingburying
Covering with earth
interring · entombing · laying to rest · reburying · reinterring
exhumingburying
Covering with earth
concealing · hiding · suppressing · covering up · interring
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