embalm
verb (used with object)
to treat (a dead body) so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs, or balsams.
has embalmed
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present perfectof embalm (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Pope set himself to reconcile them by this beautiful poem,—a poem which has embalmed at once the quarrel and the reconciliation to all future time.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
Whilst ambitious ecclesiastics may honor more the name of Bossuet, the heart of France has embalmed in its affections the name of his victim, and our common humanity has incorporated him into its body.
From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various
The poem which has embalmed his name was, we believe, written when Mr. Tennyson had chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
It has embalmed in the memory of the nation a lost cause and a vanished race.
From John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
Pindar has embalmed the names of many victors in his Olympic, Pythian, and other odes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various
