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单词 embalm
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Definition of embalm in English:

embalm

verb ɛmˈbɑːmɪmˈbɑːməmˈbɑ(l)m
[with object]
  • 1often as noun embalmingPreserve (a corpse) from decay, originally with spices and now usually by arterial injection of a preservative.

    the Egyptian method of embalming
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But Mr Lenkiewicz refused to disclose where the body was kept, saying it was the tramp's wish that his body should be embalmed and preserved.
    • The autopsies were controversial, as Muslim tradition calls for bodies not to be embalmed or in any way retouched and for them to be buried before sundown on the day of death.
    • The body had also been embalmed, which he said also had a bearing on the results.
    • Otherwise, funeral parlors embalm and show the body.
    • Marlow Wood, an American who has been embalming in Japan for the past five years, thinks that compared with the US, Japan's funeral practices make sense.
    • The Longhua Funeral Home has set up a department especially for foreigners, which helps to embalm and pack the corpses and deal with the procedures required to transport them from the country.
    • In Malta when a person died they were usually buried within 24 hours, and very few people were embalmed.
    • Stalin's body was embalmed and was presently put on display with Lenin's corpse in the renamed Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum.
    • And they're not embalmed, just killed and incinerated.
    • The fate of Lenin was even more terrible - his remains were embalmed and his theoretical legacy was falsified and remade into a bureaucratically sanctioned state religion.
    • He said it had been difficult because the body had been embalmed.
    • Passionately devoted to her husband she was brokenhearted when he died in 1269 and had his body embalmed and his heart placed in a small, silver-enamelled ivory casket which she carried with her everywhere.
    • Paul VI was only lightly embalmed before his body was placed before the public during Rome's hot summer.
    • Stow stated that the victorious Earl of Surrey took the king's corpse - which he had embalmed - to a monastery in Surrey as a prize to show his monarch, Henry VIII.
    • And myrrh, a spicy resin used for embalming the dead, was meant to point to Jesus' Passion.
    • No proper post-mortem was carried out on Mrs Gregory because her body was released and embalmed prematurely.
    • While talking about dead bodies, you should also note that twice as much formaldehyde was needed to embalm a person 20 years ago compared to today.
    • ‘But, if the body was dissected, it could not be treated with embalming fluids at all,’ Chen said.
    • As he stood up to leave, Digger came in, fresh from embalming a corpse, rubber gloves in hand.
    • The body of Hephaestion was embalmed and carried on to Babylon to be burned on a funeral pyre in a funeral on which he planned to spend astronomical sums.
    Synonyms
    preserve, mummify, lay out, anoint
    1. 1.1 Preserve (someone or something) in an unaltered state.
      the band was all about revitalizing pop greats and embalming their legacy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is something embalmed about the look of most American films.
      • The smug and superior manner in which the rest of the country has embalmed the region in the 1960s, so as to better patronize it, has echoes of Europeans on an anti-American binge.
      • Soon after that was embalmed the idea of non-standard models emerged.
      • And I don't want to be embalmed on some literary pedestal.
      • But by the time they came to embalm the nation thirty years later, each eliminated virtually any reference to its external record from their retrospections.
      • I left with visions of a future romance and an episode to be embalmed in words.
      • Blair's answer should be embalmed in the Labour party constitution, perhaps as a better substitute for the old clause four.
      • Such anecdotes illuminate the dry facts and dates in which the past was formerly embalmed.
      • Less than two weeks after its release, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is already on the verge of being embalmed in importance.
      • Then embalm the ‘peace process’ indefinitely.
      • His reputation is embalmed, still, in the romantic notions inflicted upon it by his early, maudlin admirers.
      Synonyms
      conserve, preserve, immortalize, enshrine
      cherish, treasure, store, consecrate
  • 2archaic Give a pleasant fragrance to.

    the buxom air, embalm'd with odours

Derivatives

  • embalmer

  • noun ɪmˈbɑːməɛmˈbɑːməəmˈbɑ(l)mər
    • Sadly, some deaths are in tragic circumstances and while embalmers are very skilled, they cannot rebuild a person.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When ‘the big boys’ took over in 1989 she decided to leave and started working as a trade embalmer travelling the country to carry out the task for undertakers who did not have their own staff.
      • But, while it is well known that the dead admiral's body was pickled in brandy on board the Victory to allow a state funeral, it has emerged that his embalmer was Mary Buick, a woman seafarer from Dundee.
      • This all fits with Jessica Mitford's contention in The American Way of Death that thanks to professional embalmers, funeral homes and crematoria, death in modern times has become increasingly remote and sanitised.
      • However, this part of the team believes it also possible, although less likely, that this fracture was caused by the embalmers.
  • embalmment

  • noun ɛmˈbɑːmm(ə)ntɪmˈbɑːmm(ə)ntəmˈbɑ(l)mmənt
    • The Bemba people at Kasama in the Northern Province have used the traditional technique of embalmment known as ukufumbuwila to preserve the body of their great and last King, Chitimukulu Chitapankwa II, Mutale Ng'andu.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But they discover an excavation beneath The Center that turns out to be Plato's Cave, and the discovery saves them from a living embalmment as satisfied simulacra.
      • The crematorium owner claimed that they will do 3 cremation per day, 3 embalmments per month.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French embaumer, from em- 'in' + baume 'balm', variant of basme (see balm).

Rhymes

alarm, arm, Bairam, balm, barm, becalm, calm, charm, farm, forearm, Guam, harm, imam, ma'am, malm, Montcalm, Notre-Dame, palm, psalm, qualm, salaam, smarm
 
 

Definition of embalm in US English:

embalm

verbəmˈbɑ(l)məmˈbä(l)m
[with object]
  • 1often as noun embalmingPreserve (a corpse) from decay, originally with spices and now usually by arterial injection of a preservative.

    the Egyptian method of embalming
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Marlow Wood, an American who has been embalming in Japan for the past five years, thinks that compared with the US, Japan's funeral practices make sense.
    • Stalin's body was embalmed and was presently put on display with Lenin's corpse in the renamed Lenin-Stalin Mausoleum.
    • The Longhua Funeral Home has set up a department especially for foreigners, which helps to embalm and pack the corpses and deal with the procedures required to transport them from the country.
    • The autopsies were controversial, as Muslim tradition calls for bodies not to be embalmed or in any way retouched and for them to be buried before sundown on the day of death.
    • Otherwise, funeral parlors embalm and show the body.
    • While talking about dead bodies, you should also note that twice as much formaldehyde was needed to embalm a person 20 years ago compared to today.
    • Stow stated that the victorious Earl of Surrey took the king's corpse - which he had embalmed - to a monastery in Surrey as a prize to show his monarch, Henry VIII.
    • And they're not embalmed, just killed and incinerated.
    • And myrrh, a spicy resin used for embalming the dead, was meant to point to Jesus' Passion.
    • The body had also been embalmed, which he said also had a bearing on the results.
    • The body of Hephaestion was embalmed and carried on to Babylon to be burned on a funeral pyre in a funeral on which he planned to spend astronomical sums.
    • But Mr Lenkiewicz refused to disclose where the body was kept, saying it was the tramp's wish that his body should be embalmed and preserved.
    • He said it had been difficult because the body had been embalmed.
    • As he stood up to leave, Digger came in, fresh from embalming a corpse, rubber gloves in hand.
    • Passionately devoted to her husband she was brokenhearted when he died in 1269 and had his body embalmed and his heart placed in a small, silver-enamelled ivory casket which she carried with her everywhere.
    • The fate of Lenin was even more terrible - his remains were embalmed and his theoretical legacy was falsified and remade into a bureaucratically sanctioned state religion.
    • ‘But, if the body was dissected, it could not be treated with embalming fluids at all,’ Chen said.
    • No proper post-mortem was carried out on Mrs Gregory because her body was released and embalmed prematurely.
    • Paul VI was only lightly embalmed before his body was placed before the public during Rome's hot summer.
    • In Malta when a person died they were usually buried within 24 hours, and very few people were embalmed.
    Synonyms
    preserve, mummify, lay out, anoint
    1. 1.1 Preserve (someone or something) in an unaltered state.
      the band was all about revitalizing pop greats and embalming their legacy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Blair's answer should be embalmed in the Labour party constitution, perhaps as a better substitute for the old clause four.
      • The smug and superior manner in which the rest of the country has embalmed the region in the 1960s, so as to better patronize it, has echoes of Europeans on an anti-American binge.
      • His reputation is embalmed, still, in the romantic notions inflicted upon it by his early, maudlin admirers.
      • Such anecdotes illuminate the dry facts and dates in which the past was formerly embalmed.
      • There is something embalmed about the look of most American films.
      • Less than two weeks after its release, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is already on the verge of being embalmed in importance.
      • Then embalm the ‘peace process’ indefinitely.
      • And I don't want to be embalmed on some literary pedestal.
      • I left with visions of a future romance and an episode to be embalmed in words.
      • But by the time they came to embalm the nation thirty years later, each eliminated virtually any reference to its external record from their retrospections.
      • Soon after that was embalmed the idea of non-standard models emerged.
      Synonyms
      conserve, preserve, immortalize, enshrine
  • 2archaic Give a pleasant fragrance to.

    the sweetness of the linden trees embalmed all the air

Origin

Middle English: from Old French embaumer, from em- ‘in’ + baume ‘balm’, variant of basme (see balm).

 
 
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