exhume 的定义
ex·humed, ex·hum·ing.
- to dig out of the earth; disinter.
- to revive or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting; bring to light: to exhume a literary reputation; to exhume old letters.
exhume 近义词
dig up, especially the dead
更多exhume例句
- Experts from the Harvard laboratory of geneticist David Reich extracted DNA from the bones of 29 people exhumed from the cemetery more than 40 years ago for a road project and identified five, maybe six, family groups.
- Denmark is now in the process of exhuming and burning those carcasses.
- Once a committee gets legal authorization to exhume the remains, they’ll be DNA-tested.
- As of Friday, two dozen bodies had been exhumed but police believe there could be 40 or more.
- A team of scientists is set to exhume the former Palestinian leader's body on Tuesday in order to find out.
- 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.
- When a tribe quits one place to reside at another, they exhume the bones of their relations, and take them with them.
- At last he shut the book, and, laying it down, proceeded to exhume a morning coat.
- Deprived of the requisite authority, it was unable to do more than exhume the old laws on the matter and ordain new ones.
- It is from among its ruins that the wondering fellah and explorer of to-day exhume the gorgeous relics of its past.