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Mummify   /mˈəməfˌaɪ/   Listen
Mummify

verb
(past & past part. mummified; pres. part. mummifying)
1.
Preserve while making lifeless.
2.
Remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it.
3.
Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture.  Synonym: dry up.






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"Mummify" Quotes from Famous Books



... can do one harm, and that They have occult powers. All the world has known that for a hundred thousand years, more or less, and every attempt has been made to propitiate Them. James I. would drown Their mistress or burn her, but They were spared. Men would mummify Them in Egypt, and worship the mummies; men would carve Them in stone in Cyprus, and Crete and Asia Minor, or (more remarkable still) artists, especially in the Western Empire, would leave Them out altogether; so much was Their influence dreaded. Well, I yield so far as not to print Their ...
— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc



Words linked to "Mummify" :   wither, shrivel up, mummy, bear on, uphold, shrivel, carry on, mummification, continue, preserve, shrink, embalm



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