exhumed

past tense of exhume
as in unearthed
to remove from place of burial the remains of John Paul Jones were exhumed in Paris and transported with great ceremony to the U.S. Naval Academy

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Recent Examples of exhumed The scientist noted in his journal at the time that the skulls were not exhumed and had been freely given. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025 With the Ponzi scheme charges resolved, law enforcement turned their attention to the death of Michael Cochran and exhumed the body. Steve Weisman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 Police exhumed the boy's body in 2019, but efforts to extract usable DNA took about two-and-a-half years, said Colleen Fitzpatrick, president of Identifinders International, at a 2022 press conference. Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024 Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys. Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024 Saint Nicholas‘ body was then exhumed and reburied in the church. Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2024 Between June and November 2015, those remains were again exhumed and analyzed at the DPAA's laboratory. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024 Investigators had Jane Seneca Doe’s body exhumed and her DNA was extracted. Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024 The case went cold until 2016, when police exhumed the remains from a remote corner of a cemetery in Lebanon, Pennsylviana, to obtain her DNA. Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024

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“Exhumed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhumed. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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