EXHUMED Synonyms: 7 Similar and Opposite Words

exhumed

verb

past tense of exhume

as in unearthed

to remove from place of burial the remains of John Paul Jones were exhumed in Paris and transported with great ceremony to the U.S. Naval Academy

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Recent Examples of exhumed On July 9, 1850, President Zachary Taylor became the second president to die in the White House, and the only president to have been exhumed for investigation more than a century after his death. — Sophie Clausen, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026 Five-year-old Tina Carter waited patiently with her mother Diana in a long line to carefully print her first name on a timecapsule scroll to be exhumed in 2076. — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026 The eight-part series, led by Charlie Hunnam, tapped into the serial killer who killed at least two women and exhumed several bodies for his heinous purposes in the 1950s. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 28 May 2026 Lee joins a growing list of celebrities both dead and still living, including Judy Garland, Burt Reynolds, Albert Einstein, Michael Caine and David Hasselhoff, who have been exhumed and reanimated through the dark magic of LLMs. — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 In 2022, authorities exhumed McBride’s body for additional DNA testing, a step New Jersey State Police said was critical to isolating an unknown male DNA profile from earlier evidence. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026 Graves lie empty, with large rectangular holes where the dead have been exhumed. — ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026 Their investigation led to the victim's remains being exhumed. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026

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The track won't be unearthed until 2045, when Parton would have been 99.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
All of them said that the documents raised major concerns about Towers’ conduct as a researcher and that the journal’s response didn’t do enough to address the issues the university unearthed.

— Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 24 Aug. 2026

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