Exhume

Origin

Latin ex and humāre ("to bury")

Full definition of exhume

Verb

1. To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

Synonyms

• dig up, disinter, unearth

Antonyms

• bury, inhume, inter

Derived terms

• exhumation
• exhumer