MEANING
1. To dig up or otherwise remove a buried body from its grave.
2. To recover or bring back into attention something long forgotten or neglected.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- exhume a body
- exhume remains
On the page
The investigators received permission to exhume the remains.
They exhumed the body beneath the broken headstone.
Opposite meanings
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- exhume
- Past tense
- exhumed
- Past participle
- exhumed
- Present participle
- exhuming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- exhume
- Present continuous
- am/is/are exhuming
- Present perfect
- have/has exhumed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been exhuming
- Past
- exhumed
- Past continuous
- was/were exhuming
- Past perfect
- had exhumed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been exhuming
- Future
- will exhume
- Future continuous
- will be exhuming
- Future perfect
- will have exhumed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been exhuming
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: exhume; exhumes; exhumed; exhumed; exhuming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: exhumes.
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