exhumation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exhumation (countable and uncountable, plural exhumations)

1. The act of digging up that which has been buried.

Synonyms

• disinterment

Antonyms

• burial, inhumation, interment

Related terms

• exhume

Translations

the act of digging up that which has been buried

• Bulgarian: изра́вяне n (izrávjane), ексхума́ция f (ekshumácija)
• Catalan: exhumació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發掘 / 发掘 (zh) (fājué), 发掘 (zh) (fājué)

• Czech: exhumace f
• Finnish: ylös kaivaminen; ekshumaatio
• French: exhumation (fr) f
• Galician: exhumación (gl)
• German: Exhumierung (de) f
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• Greek: εκταφή (el) f (ektafí)
• Hungarian: kihantolás, exhumálás
• Irish: dí-adhlacadh m
• Japanese: 発掘 (ja) (はっくつ, hakkutsu)
• Maori: hahunga, ehunga
• Polish: ekshumacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: exumação f
• Russian: эксгума́ция (ru) f (eksgumácija), выка́пывание (ru) n (vykápyvanije) (тру́па)
• Spanish: exhumación (es) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zy.ma.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

exhumation f (plural exhumations)

1. exhumation

Further reading

• “exhumation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.