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UK
/ɛɡzjuːmˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ɛksˌhjuˈmeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ɛksˌhjuˈmeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
How To Use exhumation In A Sentence
- Exhumation and re-interment of remains will be handled in a sensitive way.
- A committee was appointed to supervise the exhumation and identification of the bodies.
- High levels of arsenic were found in his body, leading to calls for an exhumation from Les Invalides in Paris to ascertain whether arsenic poisoning caused by an overdose of the laxative calomel caused his death.
- And when the nuns told him of the fragrance still emanating from the grave, he gave his consent for the exhumation.
- Upon exhumation, we examined each replicate for germinants, rotted seeds, and whole firm seeds, which we tested for viability with tetrazolium.
- I wish to assure your readers that those in charge of the exhumation and reinterment were not similarly careless.
- The exhumation was carried out under the aegis of the Department of Justice.
- Focusing on a single album, as this compilation does, might be a good way to get some of the Beatles' less-appreciated deep cuts renewed attention, but it also forces the exhumation of tracks that would be better left uncelebrated.
- In contrast to the exhumation chronicles, which claimed wooden skullcaps covered the sawn-off crowns, their skulls are intact.
- Possibly this was the time of exhumation of the Augenstein peneplain in the Northern Calcareous Alps, formed during Priabonian-Early Kiscellian time.