Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make into a mummy by embalming and drying.
- intransitive verb To cause to shrivel and dry up.
- intransitive verb To shrivel or dry up like a mummy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make into a mummy; embalm and dry as a mummy; hence, to dry, or to preserve by drying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.
- intransitive verb To turn into a mummy-like corpse; to dry up with unusually little decomposition; -- said of dead animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make into a
mummy , by preserving a dead body. - verb intransitive To become a mummy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture
- verb remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it
- verb preserve while making lifeless
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Examples
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A small cotton ball damp with formocresol is placed to "mummify" the pulp stumps and to sterilize the area.
What is a Pulpotomy? Dr. Dean Brandon 2006
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Australian bees 'mummify' their beetle enemy alive
WN.com - Articles related to Leander Paes plans sports academy in Puducherry 2009
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Australian bees 'mummify' their beetle enemy alive
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Yes | No | Report from Elmer Fudd wrote 18 weeks 3 days ago if time is not an issue, expose it to air in the freezer and the freezer burn will eventually mummify it
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Yes | No | Report from Elmer Fudd wrote 18 weeks 3 days ago if time is not an issue, expose it to air in the freezer and the freezer burn will eventually mummify it
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Invented in the 1890s, the multitool is more useful now than it ever was: Its flashlight yes, some have lights can help you search through a backpack filled with charging cables to find your keys; its screwdriver is always handy when you need to open your PC for a RAM upgrade and its blades will slice through any of those blister packs that mummify electronics.
Bold Folds 2011
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To mummify a body, they would remove all the organs (all those wet squishy things go bad quickly and smell bad) and cover the body with a salty substance called natron that would dry it out.
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After years of thinking about him, Cho decided to look them up on the Internet and discovered that he killed his wife and hidden her body in the attic long enough for it to mummify.
Lee Stranahan: Margaret Cho Talks About New Album, Gay Rights & Head Lice 2010
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After years of thinking about him, Cho decided to look them up on the Internet and discovered that he killed his wife and hidden her body in the attic long enough for it to mummify.
Lee Stranahan: Margaret Cho Talks About New Album, Gay Rights & Head Lice 2010
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Sometimes, Laura begged the twins to mummify her in the tablecloth and parade her through the house.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
travismcdermott commented on the word mummify
1628 G. WITHER Britain's Remembrancer 44, I could bide Shut up untill my Flesh were Mummy-fi'd.
August 1, 2008