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What does exhume mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To uncover; to bring to light.
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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.
Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter.
They want to exhume the bodies of the war dead and move them to a new resting site.
Federal agents exhume a murdered civil-rights worker from Mississippi's red clay, cloths to their noses against the stench.
There was a flood, and it did exhume a graveyard where Confederate and Union soldiers were intermixed.
My research team would safely exhume six bodies with the hope of identifying the influenza virus to make a better antiviral or a flu vaccine.

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