Embalming [verb]
Definition of Embalming:
preserve, immortalize
Synonyms of Embalming:
● Mummify
● Anoint
● Prepare
● Process
● Treasure
● Freeze
● Cherish
● Wrap
● Enshrine
● Conserve
● Store
● Lay out
Sentence/Example of Embalming:
We pay for the body to be transported, embalmed, gussied up, and cremated, or perhaps buried in expensive caskets.
So many 20th-century comics feel embalmed in their era because of topical references or period-specific jargon and humor, but 35 years after its launch, the spirit of “Calvin and Hobbes” feels snowflake fresh.
I prefer the urban living, the urban lifestyle, and yet had the sense that when I died, I would have a natural burial without embalming, without a fancy casket, etc.
The Egyptian sought in vain to make the mortal body incorruptible by embalming it.
The bodies shut up in these trunks become dry without rotting, and form a kind of mummies without the help of embalming.
Such ideas have caused much empyricism, and have been most powerful obstacles to the progress of the art of embalming.
He had, notwithstanding, a good example to follow in anticipation of a better, which was the embalming of Colonel Morland.
Later, however, he changed his course to the study of anatomy, embalming and sanitary science.
A spice of profanity seems to have the virtue of embalming a witch story in the mountain memory.
Indeed, her majesty was not in a fit state to undergo the usual formalities of embalming, &c.