embalmverb [ T ]
uk/ɪmˈbɑːm/us/ɪmˈbɑːm/to use chemicals to prevent a dead body from decaying
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Burying, cremating and preserving bodies
- ash
- body bag
- casket
- coffin
- cremate
- exhume
- ghat
- green burial
- inter
- interment
- lay
- lay sb to rest idiom
- mummify
- mummy
- natural burial
- sarcophagus
- sati
- stuff
- suttee
- taxidermist
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embalmer
noun [ C ] uk/ɪmˈbɑː.mər/us/ɪmˈbɑː.mɚ/
Examples from literature
- Mrs. Murphy jumped to the conclusion that it would only cost two or three dollars to embalm her dead husband, and so she telegraphed "Yes."
- On the arrival of the body at Government House it was immediately embalmed, and lay in State for several days, being then transported to England.
- The embalmed bodies of kings were preserved in marble sarcophagi, and hidden in gigantic monuments.
- The entrails had been badly embalmed, and it was their fermentation which caused the accident.
- Thus died Daniel, and for seven days the women sat apart upon the ground and mourned him, while the men embalmed his body and made it ready for burial.