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exhumed

exhumed is the simple past and past participle of exhume.

Meaning of exhume

Verb

exhume (third-person singular simple present exhumes, present participle exhuming, simple past and past participle exhumed)

  1. (transitive) 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.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To uncover; to bring to light.
    • Long dead traditions are exhumed just for the tourists.

Words formed from exhumed

Questions about exhumed

What is exhumed the simple past and past participle of?
Exhumed is the simple past and past participle of exhume.

Words near exhumed in the dictionary

  1. exhumations
  2. exhumator
  3. exhumators
  4. exhumatory
  5. exhume
  6. exhumed
  7. exhumer
  8. exhumers
  9. exhumes
  10. exhuming
  11. exhusband

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exhumed (page history and authors); exhume (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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