exhumation

Examples

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• The police requested an exhumation to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death.

• The exhumations bring the subject out into the open and provide closure after many years of silence.

  Academic text (2006)

• Do you have any idea how hard it is to get an exhumation order?

  Fascination (2004)

• But with each exhumation, there are fewer restrictions and more access to information and archives.

  Academic text (2006)

• There may be other exhumations we have to do.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Judge Witherspoon is issuing a court order for exhumation.

  Bite Me! (2004)

• A traveling minister describes an exhumation in his daily log on September 3, 1810.

  Blog text (1)

• Mounds of earth mark the site of the exhumations.

  Fiction book (1994)

• If we didn't have these exhumations, there wouldn't be as many conferences, courses, and interest as there are now.

  Academic text (2006)

• The regime had kept death records—including execution orders—so the case didn't require mass exhumations and forensic examinations of bodies.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

D

digging up

vsexhumation

9 4.8

Removing earth to uncover something buried, like an old object or body

focuses specifically on removing buried human remains rather than any object

D

disinterment

vsexhumation

1 9.9

Digging up buried human remains for a court or scientific investigation

is the same action but used as an alternative term for the process

How Formal

disinterment

1 9.9

exhumation

• Specialized

11 9.4

digging up

9 4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology