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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mummification has 3 senses

• mummification(n = noun.state) Array - a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape"
is a kind of condition, status
Derived form verb mummify₁

• mummification(n = noun.state) cold gangrene, dry gangrene, mumification necrosis - (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color; Array
is a kind of gangrene, slough, sphacelus

• mummification(n = noun.act) Array - embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy; Array
is a kind of embalmment
Derived form verb mummify₂

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THESAURUS

mummification

air-drying, anhydration, ashes, blast-freezing, body, bones, bottling, brining, cadaver, canning, carcass, carrion, clay, corning, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, curing, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dehumidification, dehydration, desiccation, drainage, dry bones, dry-curing, drying, drying up, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, embalming, embalmment, evaporation, food for worms, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation, irradiation, jerking, late lamented, marination, mortal remains, mummy, organic remains, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, relics, reliquiae, remains, salting, seasoning, skeleton, smoking, stiff, stuffing, taxidermy, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, tinning, withering

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