0 to remove a dead body from the ground after it has been buried
1 to remove a dead body from the ground after it has been buried
I entreat my captain to have me buried in a vault from which my body can be exhumed in case the duke, my father, should request its exhumation.
The dead are usually disposed of by cremation, but are often kept some time, being either embalmed or simply buried and exhumed subsequently.
The families who had relatives buried in the cemetery of Port Royal des Champs were ordered to exhume and carry them elsewhere.
Their controversy then slumbered, and it is only recently that scholars have exhumed it.
Seeds were exhumed at regular intervals of 15 d during the storage period.
With untiring zeal he ransacked the archives, exhumed scores of documents and edited many of them.
Reefs have been exhumed by erosion of overlying shales.
