mummify

This helps mummify corpses—though sphagnan also leaches the calcium out of bones, weakening them.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the workshops had been used to mummify humans and sacred animals.

From Washington Times ● May 27, 2023

These injuries suggest that Dakota’s carcass remained unburied and vulnerable to scavenging for some time after the dinosaur’s death—but if the dino wasn’t rapidly buried, how did it mummify?

From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2022

In drier climes, it can mummify for years; in wetter ones, a face becomes a skull in weeks.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2019

I remember the Scotch tape ads from the forties: mummify your hand in inside- out Scotch tape, defuzz your clothing.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In honeybees, this fungus causes an illness known as stonebrood disease, which mummifies the young bees.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2023

She was recently packing for a trip to visit Summum, a group in Utah that mummifies pets.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2011

Your team mummifies you with five tight belts.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, again rightly or wrongly, I have also contended that the hand of purpose deadens and mummifies story.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

It is often claimed that phosphorus eaten by rats or mice dries up or mummifies the body so that no odor results.

From House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 by David E. Lantz

A mummified male head, right foot and a right hand recovered from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor were also taken out of public view.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

NMS has a large collection of Scottish archaeological remains, external as well as mummified people from Egypt and Peru.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

One was a naturally mummified skull that still retained visible hairless skin and attached ears.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The Academy Museum wanted the original mummified Mrs. Bates head from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” but there was one problem: She was too fragile to travel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Meanwhile, Wayna Qhapaq’s mummified body was dressed in fine clothing and taken back to Qosqo on a gold litter bedecked with feathers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Rühli says he believes this could have inspired ancient Egyptians to start mummifying their honored dead.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023

That's the question my Food52 colleagues asked when they saw me mummifying avocado halves in plastic wrap to prepare them for life eternal in the freezer.

From Salon ● May 15, 2021

I had slept more soundly than I had expected, given the hard ground beneath me and the mummifying strictures of the sleeping bag.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2020

Forget a quick splodge of face paint or mummifying yourself in loo roll - celebrities always bring their costume A-game for Halloween.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2019

Sometime before 5000 b.c. they began mummifying bodies—children at first, adults later on.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann