(v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Government officials cite this and a number of alleged irregularities in previous investigations as justification for the exhumations, to the outrage of some relatives.
(2) Sixteen family members led by Makaziwe won a court case against Mandla over his 2011 decision to secretly exhume and rebury Mandela's three late children in the village of Mvezo, where Mandla is chief and has built a visitor centre.
(3) In two cases an exhumation was necessary since the bodies had been buried without any further formalities.
(4) To this end, they must be exhumed and given military honours.
(5) The former, in association with the University of Leicester, kicked off last year's stunning exhumation of Richard III's body from a car park in Leicester, and Leicester is where it wants his final resting place to be.
(6) More alarmingly, since 2008, when a local tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in Dakar, police have been cracking down, many homosexuals have gone into hiding or fled abroad (including to Gambia, whose president told them they should leave again within 24 hours or face decapitation), nine gay activists have been jailed after coming out, and the bodies of at least four gay men have been exhumed from their graves and dragged through the streets by jeering mobs.
(7) Before she died, Mobley had told loved ones that she did not want her son to be exhumed; she simply wanted the state of Mississippi to apologise.
(8) Like the fictional narrator of Soldiers of Salamis , Silva went looking for the past, beginning with the location and exhumation of the remains of his own grandfather from a ditch in north-west Spain.
(9) They ruled Grayling had acted reasonably and lawfully in consulting with the "sovereign, state and church", and in granting an exhumation licence which allowed the University of Leicester, which led the archeological dig on the site of the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, to determine Leicester cathedral as the place of reburial.
(10) Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more.
(11) The exhumation was ordered by the magistrate on request of the parents of one of the victims who suspected that their son had been wrongly identified at the postmortem examination.
(12) The deposed president's body was exhumed in May for its first authoritative autopsy as Chile's independent judiciary began a criminal investigation into the death of Allende and hundreds of other victims of the Pinochet dictatorship.
(13) Dismissing a claim for wide-ranging public consultation, the judges said there was no "legitimate expectation" that Richard III's "collateral descendants would be consulted after centuries in relation to an exhumed historical figure".
(14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
(15) But in a dozen other cases graves have been opened and bodies exhumed to see if children deemed dead and buried were not in their proper place.
(16) These are Bosnians executed 20 years ago, painstakingly exhumed from one of the largest mass graves ever found in the country.
(17) The post mortem, pathological and toxological examinations of the exhumed corpse permitted the diagnosis of reticulum cell sarcoma 16 months after death.
(18) A historical memory association, which helped with the dig in Guadalajara, has carried out several exhumations in recent years at the request of families.
(19) For others, the push for exhumations is an unwelcome way of reviving old wounds.
(20) The panel was told that Carey had been called to examine the exhumed body of the five-year-old after concerns were raised about the initial recorded cause of death.
Inhume
Definition:
(v. t.) To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
(v. t.) To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) For three of these major causes of suffocation and strangulation deaths among infants and children (refrigerator or freezer entrapment, suffocation by plastic bag, and inhumation at construction sites), there appears to have been a significant decline in incidence; however, there is no evidence of a significant reduction in deaths from mechanical strangulation in cribs.
(2) The inhumation and cremation burials from two tumulus cemeteries of the Hallstatt period (750-500 BC), Dietfurt and Schirndorf, which are both located in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, were used as illustrations.
(3) A few years later, countermeasures were introduced to prevent deaths resulting from suffocation by plastic bags, inhumation, and mechanical strangulation from wedging in infant cribs.
(4) Using the described methods, the following data relating to age-structure for the inhumation burials of both Hallstatt cemeteries could be attained.
(5) Pathological findings from early Iron Age inhumation burials from three cemeteries of the Hallstatt Period (Beilngries, Dietfurt and Schirndorf) in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) were compiled.