exhume

See also: exhumé

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ex and humāre (“to bury”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛks.ˈ(h)juːm/, /ɪɡ.ˈzjuːm/
• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈ.s(j)um/, /ɪɡˈz(j)um/

• Audio (US):

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Verb

1. (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

   The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

2. (transitive, figurative) To uncover; to bring to light.
   • 2009, S. E. Wilmer, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories (page 47)

     Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.

Synonyms

• dig up, disinter, unbury, unearth

Antonyms

• bury, inhume, inter

Derived terms

• exhumation
• exhumer

Translations

To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter

• Armenian: արտաշիրիմել (artaširimel)
• Aromanian: dizgrop
• Bulgarian: изра́вям (bg) (izrávjam), ексхуми́рам (ekshumíram)
• Catalan: exhumar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發掘／发掘 (zh) (fājué), 发掘 (zh) (fājué)

• Dutch: opgraven (nl)
• Finnish: kaivaa ylös
• French: exhumer (fr)
• Galician: desenterrar (gl), exhumar (gl)
• German: exhumieren (de)
• Hungarian: kiás (hu), kihantol, exhumál (hu)
• Icelandic: grafa upp
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: ekterigar (io), dessepultar (io)
• Irish: dí-adhlaic
• Italian: esumare (it)
• Japanese: 掘り出す (ほりだす, horidasu), 掘り起こす (ほりおこす, horiokosu), 発掘する (ja) (はっくつする, hakkutsu suru)
• Maori: hahu, ehu
• Polish: ekshumować (pl)
• Portuguese: exumar (pt), desenterrar (pt)
• Romanian: exhuma (ro), deshuma (ro), dezgropa (ro)
• Russian: эксгуми́ровать (ru) impf or pf (eksgumírovatʹ), выка́пывать (ru) impf (vykápyvatʹ), вы́копать (ru) pf (výkopatʹ), вырыва́ть (ru) impf (vyryvátʹ), вы́рыть (ru) pf (výrytʹ)
• Spanish: exhumar (es)
• Swedish: gräva upp (sv)
• Walloon: coir (wa)

to uncover, bring to light

• Finnish: paljastaa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zym/

Verb

exhume

1. first-person singular present indicative of exhumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of exhumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
5. second-person singular imperative of exhumer

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡˈsume/ [eɣ̞ˈsu.me]

Verb

exhume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exhumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exhumar.