Usually means: Dig up something buried, especially.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exhume: Merriam-Webster
  2. exhume: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exhume: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exhume: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exhume: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exhume, exhume: Wordnik
  7. exhume: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exhume: Wiktionary
  9. exhume: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exhume: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exhume: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exhume: Dictionary.com
  13. exhume: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exhume: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exhume: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Exhume: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. exhume: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. exhume: Rhymezone
  19. Exhume: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. exhume: FreeDictionary.org
  21. exhume: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. exhume: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. exhume: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. exhume: Legal dictionary
  2. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exhume: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exhume: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See exhumation as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To uncover; to bring to light.

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