exhume
verb [usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they exhume | |
| he / she / it exhumes | |
| past simple exhumed | |
| past participle exhumed | |
| -ing form exhuming |
to remove a dead body from the ground especially in order to examine how the person died （为检查死因）掘出（尸首） - be exhumed
The body was exhumed on the order of the judge. 根据法官的命令，尸体被掘出。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExhume is used with these nouns as the object:- body
- remains
Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin exhumare, from ex- ‘out of’ + humus ‘ground’.- be exhumed