embalm
verb (used with object)
to treat (a dead body) so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs, or balsams.
will embalm
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future tenseof embalm.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Let Catholics read her life, and they will embalm her in their hearts.
From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by George Henry Miles
Faith, with its imperfect yet celestial light, will meet all the legitimate wants of your mind; and prayer, with its divine unction, will embalm your soul.
From Serious Hours of a Young Lady by Charles Sainte-Foi
Probably when he dies they will embalm him, and forward him to the British Museum, as a remarkable species of his kind; and then we shall all get the full value of one shilling.
From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
He shall have a temple, and an altar, and Isis and Osiris, and papyri and palm-trees and a crocodile; and when he dies I will embalm him like a Pharaoh.'
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
His splendid and varied gifts, his chequered fortunes, and his cruel end, will embalm his memory in English history.
From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude
