exhumation

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singular : exhumation
plural : exhumations

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excavation of a buried corpse; act of digging up, especially a corpse. This is most often done to relocate a body to a different burial spot
process by which a parcel of rock approaches Earth's surface;explicitly measured relative to the surface of the Earth, rather than with reference to some absolute reference frame, such as the Earth's geoid; almost a synonym for denudation