Found 2 items, similar to Mummifying.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: mummify mummify v 1: preserve while making lifeless; “mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of” 2: remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; “Th Egyptians mummified their pharaos” 3: dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; “a mummified body was found” [syn: dry up] [also: mummified]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Mummifying Mummify \Mum"mi*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mummified; p. pr. & vb. n. Mummifying.] [Mummy + -fy: cf. F. momifier.] To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. --Hall (1646). [1913 Webster]