how to pronounce exhume

/ɛksˈhjum/

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exhume is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of exhume in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… but every so often he would exhume the …”

meanings of exhume

verb:

To uncover; to bring to light.
To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.