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English

Etymology

exhume +? -er

Noun

exhumer (plural exhumers)

1. One who exhumes.
   • 1835, William Light, The Last Voyage, p. 346:

     […] he had also satisfied his mind that it had been done consistently with the rights of man, although neither Paine, nor the exhumer of his bones had ever ventured into his country, to instil into the ductile minds of the natives the principles of their philosophy.

   • 1848, William Stirling Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain, p. 992:

     Lucia del Monte, in that city he painted a picture representing Pope St. Pasquale, a great church-builder and exhumer of holy corpses.

   • 1910, Polynesian Society (N.Z.), Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, p. 72:

     As each skull was taken out, the exhumer held it up to the view of the onlookers, when a wailing cry would be heard as they greeted the remains of their dead relative.

   • 1996, Fritz Spiegl, Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes, p. 137:

     Resurrectionist: […] since about 1776, an exhumer and stealer of corpses which were later (or perhaps better, sooner) sold to anatomists for dissection and research.

   • 2005, J. Patrick Greene, Medieval Monasteries, p. 56:

     In the medieval period monks were enthusiastic exhumers of the mortal remains of the holiest of individuals.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin exhum?, from Latin ex- + hum? (“to to bury”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zy.me/

Verb

exhumer

1. to exhume

Conjugation

Further reading

• “exhumer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin exhum?, from Latin ex- + hum? (“to to bury”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ks.?(h)ju?m/, /??.?zju?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.s(j)um/, /???z(j)um/

Verb

exhume (third-person singular simple present exhumes, present participle exhuming, simple past and past participle exhumed)

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, figuratively) 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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e???ume/, [e????u.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.