embalm
verb (used with object)
to treat (a dead body) so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs, or balsams.
had embalmed
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past perfectof embalm.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She said "they had embalmed him too late" and Mr Nightingale said: "He hadn't been embalmed until they realised the mistake."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024
An account in The New York Times of Nov. 3, 1861, reported that Dr. Holmes had embalmed the body of Col.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2014
It was late at night, and he had a nightmare about one of the guys he had embalmed earlier that day.
From Time Magazine Archive
After they had embalmed it, they dressed it and took it to the main church of the city: Saint Sofia.
From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Robert S. Rudder
I had seen the name a thousand times in print; the poets had idealised it, and the novelists had embalmed it in tender phrases.
From Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath
