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reexhume

reexhume verb: to exhume again.

Verb

reexhume (third-person singular simple present reexhumes, present participle reexhuming, simple past and past participle reexhumed)

  1. To exhume again.
    • DNB, the German press agency, issued a statement from Mussolini, in which he ordered the Fascist party to reexhume itself and punish all traitors — a category of persons yet to be defined.1969, Robert Katz, Black Sabbath: a journey through a crime against humanity, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 38
    • However, it is only in the field of superior (predicative) knowledge that true possession of the known object is realized, which can be used at will, “which we can reexhume at any time, and of which we can give news to other people.”2012, A.A. Bello, The Great Chain of Being and Italian Phenomenology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 260

Forms of reexhume

third-person singular presentreexhumes
present participlereexhuming
past participlereexhumed
pastreexhumed

Origin of reexhume

From re- + exhume.

Questions about reexhume

What does reexhume mean?
Reexhume means to exhume again.
What part of speech is reexhume?
Reexhume is a verb.
What is the past tense of reexhume?
The past tense of reexhume is reexhumed.

Words near reexhume in the dictionary

  1. reexhibition
  2. reexhibitions
  3. reexhibits
  4. reexhumation
  5. reexhumations
  6. reexhume
  7. reexhumed
  8. reexhumes
  9. reexhuming
  10. reexistence
  11. reexit

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