Crossword clues for mummify
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mummify \mum"mi*fy\ v. i. To turn into a mummy-like corpse; to dry up with unusually little decomposition; -- said of dead animals; as, A mummified body was found in the attic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French momifier, from momie "mummy," from Medieval Latin mumia (see mummy) + -fier "to make into" (see -fy). Related: Mummified; mummifying.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body. 2 (context intransitive English) To become a mummy.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Mummify (24 August 1999 – 16 October 2005) was a popular Australian Thoroughbred racehorse that amassed in prize money and won five Group One races, including the 2003 Caulfield Cup and the Singapore Airlines International Cup.
Sired by Melbourne Cup winner and Champion Australasian Older Horse Jeune (GB), his dam Cleopatra's Girl, by At Talaq (USA). Mummify was sold at the 2001 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale for $41,000. Mummify was trained by Lee Freedman and gave the trainer his 100th Group 1 victory and first international race win.
Mummify finished his career with 9 wins and 17 placings from 48 starts; prize money in excess of $5 million, placing him in the top 20 prize money winners in Australian racing history; and an international rating of 118.
The career of Mummify was cut short in the 2005 Caulfield Cup, in which he shattered the sesamoid bone of his near foreleg and was subsequently euthanized, after running third carrying top weight and attempting to lead all the way in the race.
Usage examples of "mummify".
The odds were slightly more in favor of mummified alumnae staggering out of the ritual closet than of police thundering down the stairs, but there was little else to do.
The thing was mummified, where dripstone had fused its legs to the wall and commenced covering them with gleaming calcium.
And now in the uncertain light of the cellar they looked less like electrical appliances than dwarfish creatures standing mummified there in the gloom.
For more than a day and a night Elric sat with Raik Na Seem and the men and women of the Bauradim within the shelter of the Bronze Tent, their eyes fixed upon the strangely wizened body of Alnac the Dreamthief which occasionally stirred and murmured yet still seemed as lifeless as the mummified goats which the sand-dunes sometimes revealed.
When those intrepid but unscientific explorers, Perring and Vyse, explored the passages in 1839, they found only scraps of wood and baskets, and a few mummified bats, inside a wooden box.
Eventually, nothing was left but a single mummified pollywog who was never able to get to water, along with some scattered weapons, and seven well-filled pouches of currency.
Unfocused, undefined discomfort resolved into thirstdesert-parched mouth, mummified tongue, scurf like sandstone baked onto the teeth.
Then he saw, at its bottom, a small, lifeless form: the carcass of a swamper, desiccated and curled into a fetal position, mummified within tiny, hairlike tendrils growing from the bottom of the plant.
Their eyeless remains, dried and mummified by the harsh winds and waterless air, swung for more than a year from a parapet outside the palace of Jierna Tal before the prince was finally prevailed upon to have them removed so that they did not clash with the street decorations celebrating the rites of spring.
They came crashing through into the entry hall where they piled up like so many falling duckpins, dislodging as they fell a neat pyramid of mummified heads.
Eisean saw a bright purple justicoat and starched, ruffled ascot with a monstrous, hideous, mummified head floating above it, only scraps of thin flesh covering bulbous eyes and the gaping, horrible, toothless maw of its mouth.
The mummifying of the poor was cheap, and that of the poorest had to be provided by the kolchytes as a tribute to the king, to whom also they were obliged to pay a tax in linen from their looms.
It reached for Julia with a clawed hand, and Wolfsbane gleamed brightly as it sliced clean through the mummified flesh.
The Aztecs, like the Egyptians, mummified their dead by taking out the bowels and replacing them with aromatic substances.
The sacred bulls, their mothers, ibises and cats were mummified when they died, and laid to rest in vast underground tunnels and chambers.