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.
例句
His remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Queens, New York City.他的遗体被从纽约市皇后区的墓地里挖了出来。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. the act of digging up something (especially a corpse) that has been buried