V-T If a dead person's body is exhumed, it is taken out of the ground where it is buried, especially so that it can be examined in order to find out how the person died. 挖掘(尸体以供检验) [正式] [usu passive]
His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens.
他的遗体已被从昆士郡的一个墓地里挖了出来。
exhumation N-VAR
Detectives ordered the exhumation when his wife said she believed he had been killed.
当他的妻子说认为他已被杀时，侦探们要求挖掘尸体。
And then Sara found it: by almost falling in a shoddily exhumed grave.
然后莎拉发现了：通过差点儿掉进一个挖的很糟的墓里。
Hess's bones were exhumed at the graveyard in the town of Wunsiedel, southern Germany, early on Wednesday.
在周三早上，赫斯的尸骨从位于德国南部文西德尔的墓中被挖掘出来。
A few feet away, a bronze Eros looks bemused at the fact that he was exhumed north of Kabul instead of in Rome.
几英尺之外，一个黄铜雕像的爱神正在沉思，它是在喀布尔出土而不是在罗马。
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