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mummified

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mum·mi·fy  (mm-f)
v. mum·mi·fied, mum·mi·fy·ing, mum·mi·fies
v.tr.
1. To make into a mummy by embalming and drying.
2. To cause to shrivel and dry up.
v.intr.
To shrivel or dry up like a mummy.
mummi·fi·cation (-f-kshn) n.
mummified
Adjective
(of a body) preserved as a mummy
mummification n
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As I approached it I saw that it was the dead and mummified remains of a little old woman with long black hair, and the thing it leaned over was a small charcoal burner upon which rested a round copper vessel containing a small quantity of greenish powder.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
In the one case a man lies dead-alive four genera- tions -- mummified in ignorance and sloth -- and that qualifies him to command live people, and take their weal and woe into his impotent hands; and in the other case, a man lies bedded with death and worms four generations, and that qualifies him for office in the celestial camp.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
The figures were scarce a foot in height and but for their diminutive proportions might have been the mummified bodies of once living men.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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