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Investigators want to exhume the body for analysis, but the family is objecting.exhume = unbury a corpse
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If I could, I'd exhume his body and punch him in the nose.
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No smashing with an ax head before it is decently exhumed from the grave that has hidden it all this time. (source)exhumed = unburied
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Black corpses were routinely exhumed from graves for research, and an under ground shipping industry kept schools in the North supplied with black bodies from the South for anatomy courses. (source)
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Da Vinci actually exhumed corpses to measure the exact proportions of human bone structure.† (source)exhumed = unburied a corpse
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The body of the unfortunate Miss Evelyn-Hyde had been exhumed, of course, and as Geoffrey Alliburton drew Mary to a halt in front of the gate leading into Little Dunthorpe's C of E churchyard, Mrs. Ramage found herself wishing fervently that she had not listened to the tales of the exhumation.† (source)
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As soon as the baby was exhumed but before she had an opportunity to formally examine the body, Enstice told an investigator that she believed that the baby had been born alive.† (source)exhumed = unburied a corpse
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In 2003 the authorities agreed to exhume around 30 bodies from a cemetery used by maternity hospital number 6.† (source)exhume = unbury a corpse
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With the shovel he began to dig in the sand which the brush had concealed, exhuming one by one six metal tins with screw tops.† (source)
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You now know more about his exhumation than ninety-nine percent of Americans.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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During the Civil War, Union soldiers exhumed the body from the grave and posted his skull on an iron gate as a warning to citizens not to resist the occupation.† (source)exhumed = unburied a corpse
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During the next week, some workers, my brother David among them, had to exhume hundreds of bodies from the mass graves where they had been thrown and burn them.† (source)exhume = unbury a corpse
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But as for Clyde striking her with it, even accidentally, well, it was decided at that time at least, to contend that he had not—although after exhuming Roberta's body at Biltz it had been found that the marks on her face, even at this date, did correspond in some degree to the size and shape of the camera.† (source)
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This well-known precaution was adopted to prevent the speedy exhumation of the body by some of the carnivorous beasts of the prairie, whose instinct was sure to guide them to the spot.† (source)
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They burned it in one of the pots, and the stench was like a corpse exhumed for its bones too soon.† (source)exhumed = unburied a corpse
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The rest of us traipsed off day after day to exhume the past.† (source)exhume = unbury a corpse
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