exhume

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

   “Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.”

2. (figuratively, transitive)To uncover; to bring to light.

   “Long dead traditions are exhumed just for the tourists.”

   “Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.”