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The word 'exhume' is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word 'exhume' when you are referring to the act of digging up a body that was buried in the ground. For example: "The archaeologists decided to exhume the ancient remains to learn more about the civilization."
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Mrs Arafat, who refused to allow an autopsy when her husband died in a Paris hospital in November 2004, said yesterday she would be asking for an exhumation, telling Al-Jazeera: "We must go further and exhume Yasser Arafat's body to reveal the truth to the Muslim and Arab world".
In another intriguing case, an appellate court denied permission to exhume John Wilkes Booth, in part because it argued that the relatives who sought the exhumation should not override the wishes of Booth's next of kin, who had chosen his resting place more than a century before, and presumably wanted him to stay there.
It has now emerged that Field worked for them as a gardener and police may exhume the boy's body to carry out new forensic tests.
Team Blue will once again regain the White House on an "anti-dumb war" campaign; a scattering of Republicans will then exhume their deference to the War Powers Act, and the U.S. share of global responsibility and military spending will continue its inexorable climb toward 100 percent.
Nor does he want to exhume and repatriate the 500-odd Poles buried in war graves in the Netherlands – presumably fallen soldiers count as permanent residents.
Federal agents exhume a murdered civil-rights worker from Mississippi's red clay, cloths to their noses against the stench.
To save the living from a vampire's evil deeds, it is necessary to plant a stake in the grave so that it passes through the heart of the corpse or else to exhume the corpse and burn it.
Austria announced plans to exhume graves containing the remains of 220 suspected victims of Nazi Germany's infamous euthanasia programme yesterday after building workers unearthed a mass of human bones in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital.
In a previous update, health minister Adila Hammoud described the work to exhume the Speicher victims as "complicated".
The first of the trip's seminars is a discussion intended to exhume the conservative corpse and discover its cause of death on the black, black night of 7 November, 2006, when the treacherous Democrats took control of the US Congress.
New evidence suggests Private Cheryl James may have been raped the night before she was found dead at Deepcut in 1995 (PA) At a pre-inquest hearing last year, the family's lawyers were given permission by the coroner, Brian Barker QC, to exhume the body of Private James.
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