mummify
verb (used with object)
to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
mummified
Example Sentences
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Researchers determined that the 1.2m long mummified fish was a tarpon, a species no longer found in New Zealand waters.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
Highlights include the larger-than-life granite kneeling statue of Queen Hatshepsut from her terraced temple at Deir el-Bahri and a mummified crocodile that measures over eight feet long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
An adjacent room showcases two small mummified princesses -- Tutankhamun's daughters who died before birth -- also on public display for the first time.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025
The body is then mummified due to a lack of moisture and oxygen in the glacier.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
Or, rather, they passed by a chapel that was thought to contain the conqueror’s mummified body; the actual remains turned up years later, stashed inside two metal boxes beneath the main altar.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
