embalm
verb (used with object)
to treat (a dead body) so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs, or balsams.
have embalmed
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present perfectof embalm.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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Specialists from the Moscow-based Center for Biomedical Technologies also have embalmed Kim Il Sung and other Communist leaders, including the Soviet Union’s Josef Stalin and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh, the station said on its website.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 28, 2011
Director Milos Forman and screenwriter Jean- Claude Carriere have not so much adapted this deliciously nasty tale as they have embalmed it.
From Time Magazine Archive
So! so! they would have embalmed them, in their reverence for meditation and genius, although their religion prohibits the ceremony of interring them.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Love and fidelity have embalmed her deed and lent her immortality.
From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis
Some, like Petrarch, Earl Surrey, Burns, and Byron, have embalmed the objects of their affection in the effusions of their muse, while others have bequeathed that duty to others.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various
