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To exhume someone is to take a dead body out of the ground, especially so doctors or the police can check the cause of death. It is a formal verb: police exhume a body; a court may allow a family to exhume remains for a DNA test. You do not use it for digging up a plant or a pipe. Writers sometimes stretch it — to exhume an old argument is to drag it up again — but that is a metaphor sitting on the grave meaning, and the student meaning you need first is the body. It is never casual speech; even in news it sounds solemn.
掘出（屍體）、開棺取出
組成From Medieval Latin exhumō: Latin ex- (“out”) + humō (“to bury”). So, to un-bury.
同家族的字
- exhumationthe noun — the act of digging the body up
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
exhumeverb/ɛksˈ(h)juːm/
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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.
- Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.
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To uncover; to bring to light.
- Long dead traditions are exhumed just for the tourists.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。