exhume
exhume [ ig-ZOOM, -ZYOOM, eks-HYOOM ] | |
[ verb ] | |
MEANING : | |
1. to dig or recover from a grave 2. to restore from obscurity | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | |
The body was exhumed so that another post mortem could take place. | |
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | |
Today, Spencer Wells says, "Phoenicians have become ghosts, a vanished civilization." Now he and Zalloua hope to use a different alphabet, the molecular letters of DNA, to exhume these ghosts. |
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