exhume

English Thesaurus

1. dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies (verb.social)

hypernym	:	dig up, excavate, turn up,
definition	:	find by digging in the ground (verb.contact)

derivation	:	digging up, disinterment, exhumation,
definition	:	the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried (noun.act)

derivation	:	digging up, disinterment, exhumation,
definition	:	the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried (noun.act)