as in funeral director
a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation
the undertaker wore black clothes and a solemn expression
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Recent Examples of undertaker
Florists ran out of flowers, and undertakers ran out of coffins, signaling extreme mortality rates.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
In addition, the award-winning and emerging writers were asked to include three of eight items in each story: a shovel, the name Sandi, an undertaker, a Minnesota Twins baseball cap, chattering teeth, whistling, smoke and a mousetrap.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2024
This 1920's palazzo in L.A.'s Fremont Place enclave was owned for decades by one of Hollywood’s favorite undertakers and later was leased to a prominent futurist.
—Mark Voss, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
Buy Now 05 of 22 'The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy' by Megan Bannen
Set in a vivid and magical world full of spooky details, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy is a wholly unique story of a marshal who patrols a supernatural world (Hart) and an undertaker (Mercy) who inadvertently become pen pals.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
In addition, the award-winning and emerging writers were asked to include three of eight items in each story: a shovel, the name Sandi, an undertaker, a Minnesota Twins baseball cap, chattering teeth, whistling, smoke and a mousetrap.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 24 Nov. 2024
This 1920's palazzo in L.A.'s Fremont Place enclave was owned for decades by one of Hollywood’s favorite undertakers and later was leased to a prominent futurist.
—Mark Voss, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2024
Buy Now 05 of 22 'The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy' by Megan Bannen
Set in a vivid and magical world full of spooky details, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy is a wholly unique story of a marshal who patrols a supernatural world (Hart) and an undertaker (Mercy) who inadvertently become pen pals.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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