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mummify

 verb
     
Related topics: Death
mum‧mi‧fy past tense and past participle mummified, present participle mummifying, third person singular mummifies [transitive]
MX to preserve a dead body by putting special oils on it and wrapping it with cloth
—mummification noun [uncountable]
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