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reexhume en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + exhume.

Meanings

1. To exhume again.
   • However, it is only in the field of superior (predicative) knowledge that true possession of the known object is realized, which can be used at will, “which we can reexhume at any time, and of which we can give news to other people.” 2012, A.A. Bello, The Great Chain of Being and Italian Phenomenology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 260:
   • Even when servicemen were hastily interred within U.S. lines, it was difficult to reexhume, get positive identifications, and prepare the bodies for shipment to the United States in the heat of the emergency. 2019, D. M. Giangreco, Kathryn Moore, Dear Harry: Letters to President Truman, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 327:
   • DNB, the German press agency, issued a statement from Mussolini, in which he ordered the Fascist party to reexhume itself and punish all traitors — a category of persons yet to be defined. 1969, Robert Katz, Black Sabbath: a journey through a crime against humanity, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 38:

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