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synonyms for exhume

  • disclose
  • resurrect
  • unearth
  • disinter
  • reveal
  • disembalm
  • disentomb
  • disinhume
  • unbury
  • uncharnel
On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exhume, such as: disclose, resurrect, unearth, disinter, reveal, and disembalm.

antonyms for exhume

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  • bury
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How to use exhume in a sentence

Many of these exhumed space rocks come from between Mars and Jupiter, but those of a rarer pedigree are lunar meteorites, ones that some scientists say, hail from the dark side of the moon.
A METEORITE-HUNTING AI WILL SCOUT FOR SPACE ROCKS BURIED IN POLAR ICETATYANA WOODALLJANUARY 26, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCE
The stepmother calls the police, who exhume the bodies—and, naturally, have a lot of questions.
THE TRUE STORY BEHIND HBO’S GRIPPING TRUE CRIME DRAMA LANDSCAPERSMAHITA GAJANANDECEMBER 9, 2021TIME
We’ve also asked the United Nations to deploy investigators and forensic anthropologists to exhume the numerous mass graves in DRC to collect and preserve evidence.
'WE CANNOT REST IN OUR FIGHT.' ANGELINA JOLIE TALKS TO DR. DENIS MUKWEGE ABOUT SUPPORTING VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCEANGELINA JOLIEDECEMBER 1, 2021TIME
One by one, the graves have been exhumed, the remains analyzed and identified with advances in DNA technology and science.
INSIDE THE 80-YEAR QUEST TO NAME PEARL HARBOR'S UNKNOWN VICTIMSW.J. HENNIGANNOVEMBER 23, 2021TIME
Experts from the Harvard laboratory of geneticist David Reich extracted DNA from the bones of 29 people exhumed from the cemetery more than 40 years ago for a road project and identified five, maybe six, family groups.
FACES OF THE DEAD EMERGE FROM LOST AFRICAN AMERICAN GRAVEYARDMICHAEL RUANEJULY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Denmark is now in the process of exhuming and burning those carcasses.
THE NEXT PANDEMIC: HOW READY ARE YOU?SEAN CULLIGANJUNE 15, 2021OZY
Once a committee gets legal authorization to exhume the remains, they’ll be DNA-tested.
WHY IT TOOK 100 YEARS FOR AMERICA TO LEARN ABOUT THE TULSA MASSACREFABIOLA CINEASMAY 30, 2021VOX
As of Friday, two dozen bodies had been exhumed but police believe there could be 40 or more.
EIGHT PITS FULL OF MURDERED WOMEN FOUND IN EX COP’S BACKYARD IN EL SALVADORBARBIE LATZA NADEAUMAY 21, 2021THE DAILY BEAST
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.
UNEXPLORED!ALLEN CHAFFEE
When a tribe quits one place to reside at another, they exhume the bones of their relations, and take them with them.
BORNEO AND THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGOFRANK S. MARRYAT
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