to embalm

Examples

• All

• Inside the amber, a million-year-old fly was embalmed, as fresh and surprised as the moment he died.

  Fiction book (1994)

• For hundreds of years each Apis bull has been embalmed in exactly the same way.

  Pam Roark: Iraq War Nurse (2020)

• What if she has him embalmed?

  The Night Listener (2006)

• Later on, people started wanting to be embalmed and laid out in public.

  Fiction book (1999)

• And we never had to see an embalmed body, an open casket, or a funeral scene.

  Last Chance Charlene (2022)

• The farthest table held a male who was in the process of being embalmed.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Instead, the corpse functions as a witness to Ruysch's success at embalming it.

  Academic text (1996)

• Once my husband finally passed, that's when they said that the package that I bought didn't cover the cost of embalming or moving the body.

  The Burial (2023)

• Rosalia Lombardo, far right, embalmed by a secret process eighty-three years ago, looks as if she is napping.

  Academic text (2003)

• To prepare the body for the funeral, they decided to embalm him with a special solution.

Synonyms

M

to mummify

vsto embalm

17 8.3

Preserve a dead body by drying it to keep it from rotting

focuses on chemical treatment to prevent decay rather than drying and shriveling

P

to preserve

vsto embalm

2 3.2

To stop food from going bad so it lasts longer

applies this prevention specifically to dead human remains rather than food

E

to embalm a body

vsto embalm

• Specialized

1 9.8

To stop a dead body from decaying by using chemicals or other methods

is the shorter expression for the same chemical treatment action

Phrasal Verbs

E

to embalm a body

• Specialized

1 9.8

To stop a dead body from decaying by using chemicals or other methods

How Preserved

to mummify

17 8.3

to embalm

• Specialized

41 9.0

to preserve

504 3.4

to bury

∞ 1.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology