1. the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried; [syn: exhumation, disinterment, digging up]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
digging up
n 1: the act of digging something out of the ground (especially
a corpse) where it has been buried [syn: exhumation,
disinterment, digging up]