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exhume

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Meaning

To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

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As a result of pressure from France, the US and the UK, Spain abandoned Western Sahara on November 14, 1975, going so far as to even exhume Spanish corpses from cemeteries. Source: Internet

In 1970, KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised an operation to destroy the remains.sfn On 4 April 1970, a Soviet KGB team used detailed burial charts to exhume five wooden boxes at the Magdeburg SMERSH facility. Source: Internet

At this point, the quarantine lifestyle influencers would have advised me to step away, exhume myself from my internet cocoon, maybe listen to “Va Va Voom” on a Zune. Source: Internet

One of the doubters told Pozner he ought to exhume the body to prove he really had a child who died. Source: Internet

Families exhume the bodies of relatives who died of Covid-19 and were buried in Wadi Al Salam cemetery in Najaf. Source: Internet

The similarities in the “signs of disorientation and confusion” both Peter and Ann displayed — along with her “white powder” claims — prompted detectives to exhume Peter’s body. Source: Internet

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