mummifies
Dries and wraps
Mummifies is the third-person singular form of mummify—to preserve a body by embalming and drying, as the ancient Egyptians did with their dead.
The word extends to any process that dries and preserves: The desert heat mummifies flesh.
Figuratively, something mummifies when it becomes rigid or lifeless: Bureaucracy mummifies innovation.
Cooked fruit in sugar
- wrapsEncircles with covering
- entombsSeals in a sepulcher
- anointsApplies consecrating oil
- bandagesStrips covering wounds
desiccates · prepares · shrouds · ritualizes · natron · canopic · sarcophagus · linen
Causes total inability to move
- freezesHardens from cold
- stiffensBecomes less pliable
- immobilizesPrevents any motion
- petrifiesCauses frozen terror
ossifies · fossilizes · stagnates · rigidifies · deadens · numbs · silences · constrains
preserves
Cooked fruit in sugar
bandages · desiccates · prepares · shrouds · ritualizes · natron · canopic · sarcophagus · linen · resin
paralyzes
Causes total inability to move
- freezesHardens from cold
- stiffensBecomes less pliable
- immobilizesPrevents any motion
petrifies · ossifies · fossilizes · stagnates · rigidifies · deadens · numbs · silences · constrains · suffocates
dries
Loses moisture content
- dehydratesRemoves water content
- shrivelsContracts from dryness
- withersShrinks from dryness
parches · hardens · leathers · jerky · preserves · cures · shrinks · toughens · wrinkles · papery
mummifiescremates
Burns a corpse
incinerates · burns · dissolves · liquefies · disintegrates
mummifiessaturates
Fills to maximum capacity
hydrates · soaks · waterlogged · moistens · rehydrates
- mummified remainsPreserved body from antiquity