exhume

Preposition: from

• grave: The DNA analysis remains the only tool to identify thousands of nameless victims exhumed from mass graves across the former Yugoslavia.
• depth: Can we understand these processes by looking at faults exhumed from the depths where earthquakes are known to have nucleated?
• cemetery: Last month his body, together with that of his aunt, was exhumed from a Cemetery in Bushey, Hertfordshire.
• ground: In 1428 his bones were exhumed from holy ground and burnt - the ashes were thrown into a tributary of the river Avon.

Modifying Another Word

• recently: Recently exhumed after four years of burial it sounds as great as ever.
• not: The skeletons of the other two victims, buried in the cave, were not exhumed.
• even: I heard today that they've even exhumed the body of Pope John!
• then: The body is then exhumed in a family ceremony with a priest.

Object

• body: Faulkner uses Owen's iconic poetry to flesh out the bones of three bodies exhumed from the earth of the erstwhile trenches.
• remain: There are many applications per year to exhume human remains for varying reasons.
• fault: Previous work on exhumed faults has tended to focus on the fault morphology.
• grave: Scandinavian forensic experts, for example, are helping local communities in Iraq exhume mass graves.
• corps: All too often, we have allowed them to exhume the corpses of that tiny handful of people who have died using drugs.
• corpse: She supports her husband, even going to exhume a corpse he believes is a vampire.