v
(transitive) To imbue or endow with a soul.
n
(historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.
n
(historical) The illicit theft of cadavers, especially by exhuming them from graves, to sell to them to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
v
(mortuary technology) To manipulate a corpse in which rigor mortis has set in, (by massage, flexing joints, or brute force) in order to change the position of the body.
n
(archaic) Murder for the purpose of selling the body for dissection.
v
(archaic) Synonym of cicatrize
n
One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.
v
(transitive) To change the status of (a forest) so that it is no longer legally regarded as forest land.
n
The removal of plants from beds.
n
(humorous or nonstandard) Extermination of rats, especially aboard a merchant vessel.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
n
The process of embalming.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To clothe with flesh.
n
The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
n
The burial practice of removing (or causing to be removed) the flesh and organs of the dead, leaving only the bones, especially the practice laying out corpses for vultures to strip bare.
n
A hit man, especially being in some organization.
n
(obsolete) An executioner.
adj
Relating to exhumation or disinterment.
n
Specifically, a person whose job it is to kill insects and other pests in a building.
v
(idiomatic) To complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton.
v
(transitive) To be satisfied sexually.
v
(transitive) To produce gangrene in.
n
The practice of illegally removing corpses (or other items) from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.
n
The act by which something is hallowed.
n
(Roman Catholicism) The offering of incense.
n
The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
n
The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
v
To fill with one's semen.
v
(transitive) To make into a mummy, by preserving a dead body.
n
(largely obsolete) An autopsy.
n
The regulation or management of another species defined as a pest.
n
An exterminator; a worker in pest control.
n
The ritual desecration of the body of a dead person.
n
A process for the disposal of a corpse by submerging it in a strong base compound at a high pressure and temperature until it dissolves.
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(euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
n
Alternative form of resurrection man [(euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.]
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(historical) Graverobbing.
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(euphemistic, historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
v
To remove a body from its grave (illegally, for dissection); to engage in bodysnatching.
n
(physiology) The act or process of secerning or secreting.
n
Reburial of the dead following an exhumation.
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(historical) The political activism of the suffragettes.
n
Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
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The practice of burying someone alive.
n
(colloquial, figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
v
(transitive, fictional) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).
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