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]