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mummify


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mummify  \Mum"mi*fy\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Mummified};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Mummifying}.]  [Mummy  +  -fy:  cf  F.  momifier.] 
  To  embalm  and  dry  as  a  mummy;  to  make  into  or  like  a  mummy. 
  --Hall  (1646). 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mummify 
  v  1:  make  into  a  mummy 
  2:  dry  up  and  shrivel  due  to  complete  loss  of  moisture;  "a 
  mummified  body  was  found"  [syn:  {dry  up}] 




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