Mummy

Quick meaning: Mummy is a noun meaning (countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.

Meaning

(countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.

More Meanings

1. (countable, by extension) Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body.
2. (uncountable, now rare) A pulp.
3. (uncountable, medicine, now historical) A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
4. (uncountable, horticulture, obsolete) A sort of wax used in grafting.
5. (transitive, dated) To mummify.
6. (countable) An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.
7. Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body. (countable, uncountable, now rare) A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.

Example Sentences

Many people believed in the curse of the mummy, and soon, the curse had become an accepted part of Tut′s legend.

But, more horrible, I had not failed to note that its purplish gleaming body resembled that of a human being - or of a chrysalis encasing one - or of a mummy!

Going up to him, therefore, he laid hold on his lance, and breaking it, began to thresh him so severely, that, in spite of the resistance of his armour, he was almost beaten into mummy […].

'Mummy,' that is pounded ancient Egyptian, is, I believe, a pigment much used by artists, and especially by those of them who direct their talents to the reproduction of the works of the old masters.

Word Forms

• mummies
• mummying
• mummied
• mummie

Synonyms for mummy

Depending on context, synonyms include mama, mater, mum, mom, mamma, momma.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mamma, mater, mammy, momma, mum, mommy.

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