exhume

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exhume 是什么意思

中文释义

vt. 掘出, 发掘

英文释义

v dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies

exhume 的真实例句

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In 1984, one group, the Hunt Retribution Squad, evenplottedto exhume the 10th Duke of Beaufort and post his head to Princess Anne.

—— A Day with England’s Hunt Saboteurs

Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-snatching trade led by “resurrection men” and reformers sought alternatives to the toxic urban graveyards and their pestilent fumes.

—— In early-19th century Britain, body snatchers were such a problem that lead coffins, metal cages, and other hardware were used to protect the dead

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