embalm
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Before the 90-day waiting period is over, mortuaries are not allowed to embalm or cremate people without authorization from their next of kin, so the cooler is the only way to keep remains preserved.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024
She and her colleagues also embalm about 65% of the bodies, preserving them for longer and slowing down decomposition.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
Cremation, for example, is an energy-intense process that produces carbon dioxide emissions, while traditional burial uses chemicals to embalm bodies and a nonbiodegradable coffin to store them.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2022
Chili peppers make you sweat; tragic novels make you cry; academic papers embalm you in a formaldehyde of words and then give you a splendid phrase to use for the rest of your life.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021
It caused Claudia to want to embalm Jamie in a vat of mummy fluid right that minute.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
Vocabulary lists containing embalm
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