The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mummified \Mum"mi*fied\, a. Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.
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).
Wiktionary
Preserved, for a dead body, by mummification. v
(en-past of: mummify)
WordNet
See mummify
v. preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of"
remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaos"
dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found" [syn: dry up]
[also: mummified]
Usage examples of "mummified".
Henry sensed there was a connection, some way to bring all these strands together: mummified priests, mysterious metals, sealed crypts.
The bright flames, like the light of salvation, bloomed upon the mummified corpse.
He must have hoped his body would be returned to the Spaniards, rather than mummified and buried like it was.
The metal had terrified the mummified friar, and he had possibly hinted at a way to destroy it.
But he got up nerve enough to reach inside the car and push the mummified thing across the seat.
Because all knew of the crazy story that had been told by Hardrock Hennesey earlier tonight, a cockeyed yarn about a mummified man and a fog that burned.
What has the appearance of a mysterious fog, the finding of mummified men got to do with the governor?
She allowed the bronze man to lead her away from the gruesome sight of the crushed, mummified man.
The body had mummified in the webbing, wings turned parchment thin, head dried out to a long narrow skull whose beak gaped half open.
By the time we'd assembled everything on the platform — off to one side, at a discreet distance from the mummified original occupants — I was shattered.
Beneath the mummified hovering of the two Martians, the rest of the company were sitting around the stripped-down buoy on inflatable loungers, picking without much enthusiasm at the remains of tab-pull field ration pans.
At the centre, the mummified corpses of the Martians disappeared, shrouded in the evolving gale of radiance.
The whole situation, the upward-sucking vertigo of the Martian ship's empty corridors and chambers, the mummified gaze of the corpses and the battle with weapons of unimaginable power raging outside — all of it seemed to have receded an immense distance into the past.
I felt as if the fluttering wings had somehow hollowed out my head so that my whole skull wasn't much less delicate than the mummified remains I was sharing the chamber with.
Another two stumbling backsteps and we both smashed into the mummified Martian corpse together.