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
Elfrida put a very few of them into the wooden box, just as she would have embalmed, if she could, a very few of the half-hours they had spent together.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Cable and Harris have looked toward the past, and have embalmed vanished or vanishing types.
From The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
He should bring himself into contact with the great and wise and good, who have embalmed their lives in the varied forms of art.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
