Definitions
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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Preserve for burial”6 letters
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