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Mummify

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Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
mum=mi=fy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Mummify has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mummifyv. t. [Mummy + -fy: cf. F. momifier.].
     To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.  Hall (1646).  [1913 Webster]
Mummifyv. i. 
     To turn into a mummy-like corpse; to dry up with unusually little decomposition; -- said of dead animals; as, A mummified body was found in the attic.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Mummify, v.tr. (-ies, -ied)
1 embalm and preserve (a body) in the form of a mummy (see MUMMY(2)).
2 (usu. as mummified adj.) shrivel or dry up (tissues etc.).

Derivative
mummification n.

THESAURUS

Mummify

air-dry, anhydrate, bake, blast-freeze, blot, brine, brush, burn, corn, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, dry-cure, dry-salt, embalm, evaporate, exsiccate, fire, freeze, freeze-dry, fume, insolate, irradiate, jerk, kiln, kipper, lay out, lie in state, marinade, marinate, mummy, parch, pickle, preservatize, quick-freeze, refrigerate, rub, salt, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, smoke, smoke-cure, soak up, sponge, stuff, sun, sun-dry, swab, torrefy, towel, weazen, welter, wilt, wipe, wither, wizen

ROGET THESAURUS

Mummify

Dryness

VB be dry, render dry, dry, dry up, soak up, sponge, swab, wipe, drain, desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate, parch, kiln dry, vacuum dry, blow dry, oven dry, hang out to dry, mummify, be fine, hold up.

Interment

VB inter, bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb, inhume, lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify, toll the knell, put to bed with a shovel, inurn, exhume, disinter, unearth.

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