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- verb Present participle of
exhume .
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Examples
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The Air Combat and Information Group have published a set of fascinating photographs on "exhuming" the dead Iraqi Air Force.
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The Air Combat and Information Group have published a set of fascinating photographs on "exhuming" the dead Iraqi Air Force.
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Digging away like steam shovels for hell, they were halfway to exhuming the body of the recently departed emeritus head of the biochem lab when a police cruiser turned into the grounds and they scattered like rabbits.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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This made him think he might be exhuming a pit house.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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This is a talent for exhuming blasts from the past not seen since Dubya Bush went for the double-header, placing Kissinger in charge of the official 9/11 probe, and Iran-Contra star John Poindexter back at the helm of a defense department agency.
Who next for Sepp Blatter's Fifa brains trust – Cheryl Cole? | Marina Hyde 2011
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Digging away like steam shovels for hell, they were halfway to exhuming the body of the recently departed emeritus head of the biochem lab when a police cruiser turned into the grounds and they scattered like rabbits.
Angry Young Man Chris Lynch 2011
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This made him think he might be exhuming a pit house.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Nothing new there – dance music in 2011 has been exhuming classic tracks and sounds like crazy.
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Authorities began exhuming corpses early this month in the town of San Fernando after reports that people were being kidnapped from passenger buses in the area.
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Accordingly, there must be something more to these tie-ins than exhuming (pun intended) a hoary superhero-comics cliché.
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