to mummify
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8.3
- verb
- /ˈmʌməˌfaɪ/
:
momificar
- The archaeologists discovered a mummified body buried deep under the sands of an ancient tomb.
- mummified body
- mummified remains
- mummified animals
And which of the civilizations mummified people is it?
- And which of the civilizations mummified people is it?
- Because you see, the secret of Punt may lie with the mummified remains of baboons.
- What made this so interesting was that she wasn't fossilized, she wasn't mummified, she wasn't frozen.
- in a very rare state of preservation. She wasn't fossilized, she wasn't frozen, she wasn't mummified.
- I once took a camera in there and you can see this like ancient mummified dead rat deep in this, in this, in this container.
- And this mummy was not even mummified the way the others were, but perfectly preserved.
- If you just said three weeks, your body should be mummified right now and you should be in the music.
Examples
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Nearby, other cult temples and tombs were built to inter other mummified animals.
Academic text (2006) -
Egyptians mummified their Gods and Pharaohs believing that they had the secret of eternal life.
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Everything, except how they mummified their dead.
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I found a mummified hand in her room.
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We all saw her, she was mummified.
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And which of the civilizations mummified people is it?
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"I had to take samples from masses of mummified heads in Cambridge.
Academic text (2004) -
And when they did, they found inside the sacred apis bull, fully mummified as though it were a royal prince.
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In 1888, a farmer found a tomb containing over 80,000 mummified cats.
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A circle of light slides into frame, illuminating mummified corpses that lie in niches in a tunnel wall.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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9.0
Treat a dead body with chemicals to stop it from decaying
To stop a dead body from decaying by using chemicals or other methods
Antonyms
How Preserved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mummify comes from mummy, which itself came from a word for the dark, sticky material people used in ancient Egypt to preserve bodies. So, to mummify is to turn a body into a 'mummy' by drying and treating it, which is why the word means 'to preserve' a dead body.