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    exhume

    exhume - Dictionary definition and meaning for word exhume

    Definition
    (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
    Synonyms : disinter
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for exhume

ex meaning out and hume sounds similar to human...so exhume is to take out the human body from the grave.

(ex)-out (hume)-humous,earth. thus to dig out from the earth

(ex)-out+(hume)-humous... thus dig out

EX-HUME :- Sounds lyk Bad Fumes Which generally comes out when a grave is dug out.

exhume.ex(suppose a died),hum(human).a died person is dig out to exmaine

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Ex + Human is dead man , so digging out from grave of a dead body is exhume.

exhume.....sounds like exam.......so digging up the grave for the medical examination of the dead body............... below is picture where a soldier's body is reburied by other soldiers.....

He was a human now he's ex-human(corpse) and resting in grave. Exit of ex-human.

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