mummify
verb (used with object), mum·mi·fied, mum·mi·fy·ing.
verb (used without object), mum·mi·fied, mum·mi·fy·ing.
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Contemporary Examples of mummified
“These dolls are made of mummified human remains,” the voiceover on the video says.
The grisly discovery of her mummified body has unsettled the neighborhood, the neighbor added.
But other than that, she looked exactly the same—the hot climate and humidity had mummified her.
They load a mummified man, with his face contorted into a scream, onto a medical stretcher.
Historical Examples of mummified
Originally the winding cloth of the Egyptian mummified dead.
TextilesWilliam H. Dooley
Jules Janin mummified her when she died in 1866, at the age of eighty.
Over the TeacupsOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I have already told you that the dry sand had, as it were, mummified the body.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume EditionRudyard Kipling
When they are mummified, it is merely owing to the preservative action of the salt in the soil, not to any process of embalming.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent DiscoveryL.W. King and H.R. Hall
To judge from my own sensations, they must all have been mummified on the spot.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurerJean Henri Robert-Houdin