exhumation

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɛks.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

exhumation (countable and uncountable, plural exhumations)

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

Armenian: արտաշիրմում (artaširmum)
Belarusian: эксгума́цыя f (ekshumácyja), выко́пванне n (vykópvannje)
Bulgarian: изра́вяне n (izrávjane), ексхума́ция f (ekshumácija)
Catalan: exhumació f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發掘／发掘 (zh) (fājué)
Czech: exhumace f
Finnish: ylös kaivaminen; ekshumaatio
French: exhumation (fr) f
Galician: exhumación (gl)
Georgian: ექსჰუმაცია (ekshumacia)
German: Exhumierung (de) f, Enterdigung (de) f
Greek: εκταφή (el) f (ektafí)
Hebrew: הוֹצָאָה מִן הַקֶּבֶר f (hotsa'á min hakéver)
Hungarian: kihantolás (hu), exhumálás (hu)
Irish: dí-adhlacadh m
Italian: esumazione f
Japanese: 発掘 (ja) (はっくつ, hakkutsu)
Korean: 발굴(發掘) (ko) (balgul)
Macedonian: ексхумација f (ekshumacija)
Maori: hahunga, ehunga
Polish: ekshumacja (pl) f
Portuguese: exumação (pt) f
Romanian: exhumare (ro) f
Russian: эксгума́ция (ru) f (eksgumácija), выка́пывание (ru) n (vykápyvanije) (тру́па)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ексхума́ција f

Roman: ekshumácija (sh) f
Slovak: exhumácia f
Slovene: ekshumacija f, izkop m
Spanish: exhumación (es) f
Turkish: ekshumasyon
Ukrainian: ексгума́ція f (ekshumácija), вико́пування n (vykópuvannja)

French

Etymology

From exhumer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zy.ma.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun

exhumation f (plural exhumations)

exhumation

Further reading

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

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