embalm

/em-bahm/US // ɛmˈbɑm //UK // (ɪmˈbɑːm) //

埋葬,埋葬尸体,埋尸,埋葬了

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to treat so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs, or balsams.
- : to preserve from oblivion; keep in memory: his deeds embalmed in the hearts of his disciples.
- : to cause to remain unchanged; prevent the development of.
- : to impart a balmy fragrance to.

verbpreserve, immortalize

Forms: embalming

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Green burials do not use concrete vaults, embalm bodies or use pesticides or fertilizers at gravesites.
If a man was wealthy, it cost his family as much as one thousand dollars to embalm his body suitably to his rank.
Even natron and oils were left, so that it might re-embalm itself, if the worms came to life in its members.
Two days later he gave Nebenchari permission to embalm Nitetis' body in the Egyptian manner, according to her last wish.
God knows how I embalm every such day,—I do not believe that one of the forty is confounded with another in my memory.
The whole mountain which dominates Terracina, is covered with orange and lemon trees, which embalm the air in a delicious manner.