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mummified

adjective as in wizened

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Ancient Egyptians didn’t just mummify people, they also preserved many animals.

“These dolls are made of mummified human remains,” the voiceover on the video says.

What troubles me in the first instance is that the rest of us become mummified by their arguments.

The grisly discovery of her mummified body has unsettled the neighborhood, the neighbor added.

But other than that, she looked exactly the same—the hot climate and humidity had mummified her.

The partially mummified body was only discovered when, in 1993, 56-year-old Dorian sadly succumbed to AIDS.

A few feet from the tank a mummified body lay sprawled out, mouth open.

I descended its vault in order to examine some two dozen of mummified monks, some of them four centuries old.

A mummified duck, estimated to be two thousand years old, has been discovered in a sandstone stratum in Iowa.

Pits full of mummified animals are also found among the human graves.

Of this fact the burial ground of Huacho, and the mummified animals seen on the level heights, furnish the most convincing proofs.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mummified, such as: diminished, gnarled, lean, macerated, old, and reduced.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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