mummify
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Combining cold and dry conditions can mummify bodies even when it’s not consistently chilly enough to keep a body frozen year-round.
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
That gave the animal’s skin a chance to 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
The afternoon had become as hot as meanness, and since the shirt he was wearing had enough starch in it to mummify two, maybe three, pharaohs, he began to feel he could hardly breathe.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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
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
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
"One detail I find quite beautiful is the presence of a mummified dog placed directly on top of the mummies of a man and a woman," said Carballo-Pérez.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
He remained frozen in the ice until two German hikers stumbled across his mummified remains in 1991 in the northern Italian region of South Tyrol.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
The 43-year-old still appreciates the series—and for more than the thrill of learning how investigators identified a mummified pregnant woman hidden in a barrel on Long Island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
The body is then mummified due to a lack of moisture and oxygen in the glacier.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
Tendai saw that the stuffed hyena, dried owls and mummified bats had been pulverized.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
Rühli says he believes this could have inspired ancient Egyptians to start mummifying their honored dead.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 7, 2023
As for the legacy or genealogy side of things, there are chasmic unknowns to mummifying yourself in the digital world.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2022
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
Sometime before 5000 b.c. they began mummifying bodies—children at first, adults later on.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
