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
Voltaire, to preserve so charming an incident, has embalmed it in his comedy of la Prude, act I, scene III.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
"We've been discussing The Patriot, Ban," she said, "and Mr. Gaines has embalmed you, as an editorial writer, in the amber of one of his best epigrams."
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
In his verse, "Memoriam," he has embalmed the memory of those of our early female friends he most esteemed.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks
Its most familiar call is like the word "BAZIQUE," "BAZIQUE," but it has a wild musical note which Emerson has embalmed in this line:— "The redwing flutes his O-KA-LEE."
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
