Embalms

Word EMBALMS
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Definitions and meanings of "Embalms"

What do we mean by embalms?

To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition.

To perfume or add fragrance to something.

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The word "embalms" in example sentences

Another name embalms the theory in terse Saxon that the liquor is a poison, to the inner man. ❋ Kemp Plummer (1907)

The day was warm and still; it had that aromatic scent which loads the atmosphere in spots thickly planted with firs; such as embalms the air to the traveller who has come through the wild pass of Glencoe, and rests among the ancient firs of the Black ❋ Unknown (1851)

It embalms memorabilia of the death camps and preserves them as national treasures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The show centers on the Fishers, a family that lives, loves, fights and embalms together in a Los Angeles funeral home. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One outstanding investigation headed by Dr. Maria Alemany, the Trocho Study, showed that formaldehyde from aspartame embalms living tissue and damages DNA, two horrible consequences. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As Benjamin Disraeli said, precedent embalms a principle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What needs to be done is a repeat of theTrocho Study in Barcelona which showed the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“What remains?” cried Ivanhoe; “Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Herrick, also, in his “Dirge of Jephtha,” pours forth a fragrant flow of poetical thought and image, which in a manner embalms the dead in the recollections of the living. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Ice appeals to an altogether different part of the psyche than the cooking fire, for cold embalms whatever it touches, right down to the atomic-level stasis of absolute zero. ❋ Rowland, Ingrid D. (1996)

The love of his grateful scholar, when called upon to mourn the good man's death, embalms his memory among her ❋ Various (N/A)

Burns embalms all my field-mice, and Cowper drapes an urn for me in a tangled wilderness. ❋ Various (N/A)

Its wit, its humour, or its malignity embalms it, and saves it from destruction. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"Glory, maiden -- glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name." ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)

He heals his wounds with a balsam compounded from the juice of the nut; and with the oil extracted from its pulp embalms the bodies of the dead. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

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