Mummify

Word MUMMIFY
Character 7
Hyphenation mum mi fy
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Mummify"

What do we mean by mummify?

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. intransitive verb

To make into a mummy; embalm and dry as a mummy; hence, to dry, or to preserve by drying.

To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. transitive verb

To turn into a mummy-like corpse; to dry up with unusually little decomposition; -- said of dead animals. intransitive verb

To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body. verb

To become a mummy. 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 verb

To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body.

To become a mummy.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mummify

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The word "mummify" in example sentences

A small cotton ball damp with formocresol is placed to "mummify" the pulp stumps and to sterilize the area. ❋ Dr. Dean Brandon (2006)

Australian bees 'mummify' their beetle enemy alive ❋ Unknown (2009)

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 ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But we didn't mummify our daughter's diapers either. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sometimes, Laura begged the twins to mummify her in the tablecloth and parade her through the house. ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2010)

That 3rd one looks like they started to mummify the baby in pink wrappings! ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Why would anyone want to mummify a crocodile?” she asked. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2010)

As a side note, did the Chinese actually mummify their royalty? ❋ Unknown (2008)

They mummify chickens as a farewell to lessons in Egyptian studies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Canopic packets are when they mummify the organs and then they put them back in the body, rather than removing them completely and placing them in canopic jars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dr Stephen Buckley used modern chemistry techniques to study as to what the early Egyptians used to mummify humans and animals. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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