Definition of "exhumed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of exhume. (verb)

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• "The baby and juvenile specimens were exhumed from the museum's collection, where they had languished -- unrecognized and misnamed -- since the 1960s."
• "The argument of Consumed is a barrage of small facts tenuously connected by undermotivated pet theories exhumed from the graveyard of 20th century social theory — Freud, Marcuse, Adorno,"
• "He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification."