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exhume

verb as in dig up, especially the dead

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So far, 32 bodies have been exhumed and more than 70 body parts found scattered in the forest.

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Nine bodies have been exhumed from fresh graves suspected to be linked to Kenya's notorious starvation cult.

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One pathologist had traced a "highly toxic substance", cyhalothrin, on both the body's remains and the soil where his body was exhumed.

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The government plans to expropriate 117 hectares of the 4,829-hectare site, including buildings where torture took place, and sites where victims' bodies were exhumed, then burnt and their ashes deposited.

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Visitors have left little shoes, cuddly toys and laminated poems to commemorate those whose remains will be exhumed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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