Embalm

Quick meaning: Embalm is a verb meaning (transitive) To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition.

Meaning

(transitive) To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figurative) To preserve.
2. (transitive) To perfume or add fragrance to something.

Example Sentences

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.

It is very curious to observe how the idea of revenge, inspired by an Egyptian who lived before the time of Christ, is thus, as it were, embalmed in an English family name.

There are districts of Canada mainly settled from Paisley and neighbourhood, the hivings off at such seasons as we have referred to, with whose settlement he had not a little to do, and where his memory is embalmed.

`Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'

Word Forms

• embalms
• embalming
• embalmed

Antonyms for embalm

Common opposites include ultimate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mummify, embalsam, entomb, copse, embale, embail.

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