Usually means: Preserve body to prevent decay.
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  1. embalm: Merriam-Webster
  2. embalm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embalm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embalm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embalm: Vocabulary.com
  6. embalm: Wordnik
  7. embalm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. embalm: Wiktionary
  9. embalm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. embalm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. embalm: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. embalm: Dictionary.com
  13. embalm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. embalm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Embalm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Embalm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. embalm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. embalm: Rhymezone
  19. Embalm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. embalm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. embalm: FreeDictionary.org
  22. embalm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. embalm: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. embalm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. embalm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. embalm: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. embalm: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (embalm)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figurative) To preserve.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To perfume or add fragrance to something.

Similar:
embalsam, mummify, entomb, copse, embale, embail, embrave, mellify, camphorate, lay out, more...

Opposite:
disembalm, unembalm, de-embalm

Types:
mummify, preserve, more...


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Similar:
embalsam, mummify, entomb, copse, embale, embail, embrave, mellify, camphorate, lay out, more...

Opposite:
disembalm, unembalm, de-embalm

Types:
mummify, preserve, more...



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