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Word entry · 6 letters

embalm

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"Preserve for burial"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ɪmˈbɑːm/Part of speech verbSorted abelmmStarts with EEnds with M1 clues
1E2M3B4A5L6M

Definitions

  1. preserve a dead body

Word origin

From Middle English enbawmen, from Middle French embaumer, from Old French embasmer. See balm.

Used in a sentence

  • And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
  • There are districts of Canada mainly settled from Paisley and neighbourhood, the hivings off at such seasons as we have referred to, with whose settlement he had not a little to do, and where his memory is embalmed.
  • It is very curious to observe how the idea of revenge, inspired by an Egyptian who lived before the time of Christ, is thus, as it were, embalmed in an English family name.

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