Exhume

Definition: Exhume

Exhume

Verb

1. Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies.

Date "exhume" was first used: 1783. (references)

Note: Exhume \Ex*hume"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Exhumedp. pr. vb. noun. Exhuming.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Exhume

Synonym: disinter (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Exhume, disinter, unearth.
The Past	Look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Exhume

English words defined with "exhume": Exhumed, Exhuming ♦ Unbury, Uncharnel, Ungrave, Untomb. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Uganda	Unlike in the previous year, there were no reports that prisoners were forced to exhume bodies. (references)
	Honduras	In an effort to uncover evidence that could lead to criminal prosecution of Government authorities suspected of human rights abuses, the Public Ministry invited forensic experts from Guatemala to exhume a cemetery on an army base in Olancho. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Exhume" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Exhume" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	87.5%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

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Language		Translations for "exhume"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhvarros (disinter), nxjerr në shesh (bare, bring to light, proclaim, reveal, uncover), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle). (various references)

Arabic		‏نبش (dig into, dig out, dig up, disinterment, grub, make a hole in, rake, resurrect, revelation, scratch up, snoop, snooping, unearthing), ‏خرج جثة. (various references)

Bulgarian		откопавам (dig up), изравям (dig out, dig up, disinter, hunt out, rake out, rake up, resurrect, root out, root up, scrape out, scratch out, scratch up, unearth), изкарвам наяве (bring to light, smoke out). (various references)

Czech		exhumovat (disentomb, disinter, unearth). (various references)

Farsi		نبش قبرکردن , ازخاک دراوردن (Disinter, Excavate). (various references)

Finnish		kaivaa (burrow, cut, delve, dig, dig out, disinter, drive, excavate, grub, pick, spade, to dig, to excavate, to spade). (various references)

French		exhumer (excavate). (various references)

German		exhumieren (disinter). (various references)

Greek		ξεθάβω (dig up, disinter, unearth), εκθάπτω (disinter, unearth). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"וציא מקבר (disinter). (various references)

Hungarian		exhumál (disentomb, disinter, to disinter, to resurrect, unearth), sírból kivesz. (various references)

Indonesian		menggali (dig, disinter, excavate, see: gali). (various references)

Italian		esumare (disentomb, disinter), riesumare (rake up, resurrect). (various references)

Manx		jee-oanluckey (disinter, disinterment, exhumation), jee-oailuckey. (various references)

Pig Latin		exhumeay

Portuguese		exumação (disject, resurrection). (various references)

Romanian		exhuma (disentomb, disinter, resurrect, unearth), dezgropa (dig up, disentomb, disinter, excavate, resurrect, unearth), deshuma. (various references)

Russian		выкапывать труп, выкапывать из земли. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ekshumirati. (various references)

Spanish		exhumar. (various references)

Swedish		gräva upp (dig up, disentomb, disinter, excavate, grub, unearth), gräva fram (dig out, disentomb, disinter, rout out). (various references)

Turkish		yeniden ortaya çıkarmak, mezardan çıkarmak (disentomb, disinter), deşmek (dig, dig out, dig up, dredge up, incise, open up, probe, root). (various references)

Ukranian		ексгумувати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ex-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "exhume": exhumed, exhumer, exhumers, exhumes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Exhume" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ehmke, exhi, exhube, exhude, exhum, exhune, Exuma, exume, Rexham. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "exhume" (pronounced ekshyuw"m)
3	-y uw" m	fume, perfume.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-m-u-x"
	-2 letters: emeu, heme.
	-3 letters: eme, emu, hem, hex, hue, hum.
	-4 letters: eh, em, ex, he, hm, me, mu, uh, um, xu.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-m-u-x"
	+1 letter: exhumed, exhumer, exhumes.
	+2 letters: exhumers.
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