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
The son of an undertaker, French was born in 1945 on the Fourth of July in Reinbeck, Iowa.
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2025
The art world likes to act like an undertaker and pronounce things are dead, like painting or the author.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
The undertakers would soon arrive to take his father away.
—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
Florists ran out of flowers, and undertakers ran out of coffins, signaling extreme mortality rates.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2025
The art world likes to act like an undertaker and pronounce things are dead, like painting or the author.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
The undertakers would soon arrive to take his father away.
—Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
Florists ran out of flowers, and undertakers ran out of coffins, signaling extreme mortality rates.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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