mummify
verb
mum·mi·fy
ˈmə-mi-ˌfī 
mummified; mummifying
1
: to embalm and dry as or as if a mummy
2
a
: to make into or like a mummy
b
: to cause to dry up and shrivel
: to dry up and shrivel like a mummy
Examples of mummify in a Sentence
learning how ancient Egyptians mummified their dead
a body that mummified in the desert heat
a body that was mummified by the desert heat
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Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul remained inside the body after death, so embalmers mummified bodies to preserve the spirit for the afterlife, according to Field Museum scientists.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
In one such piece, made of polished aluminum, the two figures are almost entirely mummified in the tentaclelike coils of hair coming from one of their heads.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 28 June 2024
At the beginning of that play, her character has spent a decade as a sort of half widow; her husband, who had disappeared ten years earlier, has finally been found, mummified in a peat bog.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Also in 2020, researchers described the discovery of a 57,000-year-old wolf pup that had been mummified in permafrost in Canada’s Yukon territory.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
In one such piece, made of polished aluminum, the two figures are almost entirely mummified in the tentaclelike coils of hair coming from one of their heads.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 28 June 2024
At the beginning of that play, her character has spent a decade as a sort of half widow; her husband, who had disappeared ten years earlier, has finally been found, mummified in a peat bog.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Also in 2020, researchers described the discovery of a 57,000-year-old wolf pup that had been mummified in permafrost in Canada’s Yukon territory.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
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mummify
verb
mum·mi·fy
ˈməm-i-ˌfī
mummified; mummifying
1
: to embalm and dry as or like a mummy
2
: to dry up like the skin of a mummy : shrivel
Medical Definition
mummify
verb
mum·mi·fy
ˈməm-i-ˌfī
mummified; mummifying
1
: to embalm and dry as or as if a mummy
2
a
: to make into or like a mummy
b
: to cause to dry up and shrivel
: to dry up and shrivel like a mummy
a mummified fetus
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