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mummify
 
Verb mummify has 3 senses
  1. mummify - preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of"
    --1 is one way to     continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve
    Derived form: noun mummification1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. mummify - remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaos"
    --2 is one way to     embalm
    Derived forms: noun mummification3, noun mummy2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. mummify, dry up - dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found"
    --3 is one way to shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither
    Derived form: noun mummy2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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