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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mummify.

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Examples

  • The stingless bee 'mummifies' any hive beetle that tries to After the presents are wrapped, the house is decorated, and the stockings are hung by the chimney with care; there are only two minor details left to complete the traditional Beautiful bark can give us a fine exhibition in the winter landscape.

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  • The stingless bee 'mummifies' any hive beetle that tries to enter its domain - wrapping the live parasite in resin, wax and mud until it can move no more.

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  • Veins turn into circuits, blood turns into oil . . . the skin mummifies, flaking away to reveal rusted metal bones.

    Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation Matt Myklusch 2010

  • Beside her, Casi mummifies her hand with athletic tape.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • Beside her, Casi mummifies her hand with athletic tape.

    Cheer! Kate Torgovnick 2008

  • This shuts off the entire supply of blood to the foot, which mummifies, and the lower portion becomes gangrenous and eventually sloughs off.

    The Veterinarian Charles James Korinek

  • And, again rightly or wrongly, I have also contended that the hand of purpose deadens and mummifies story.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • New York "sorceress" mummifies pets - service for humans on its way VIDEO

    digg.com: Top News Digg 2011

  • Felicity to the putrid, Bronze Age admonitions of a savage sky spirit involving the ownership of desert real-estate only entombs the heart and mummifies the mind.

    OpEdNews 2010

  • Felicity to the putrid, Bronze Age admonitions of a savage sky spirit involving the ownership of desert real-estate only entombs the heart and mummifies the mind.

    Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news Phil Rockstroh 2010

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