exhume
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"Exhume our idols and bury our friends," they sing on "Bury Our Friends."
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2015
Scientists Exhume the Heart of Richard the Lionheart Scientists are examining the embalmed heart of Richard the Lionheart, who died in 1199.
From Newsweek • Mar. 3, 2013
Exhume, eks-hūm′, v.t. to take out of the ground or place of burial: to disinter: to bring to light—also Ex′humate.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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.
From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen
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