mummify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb preserve while making lifeless
    • mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of
  2. verb remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it
    • Th Egyptians mummified their pharaohs
  3. verb dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture
    dry up.
    • a mummified body was found

WordNet

Mum"mi*fy transitive verb
Etymology
Mummy + -fy: cf. F. momifier.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Mummified ; present participle & verbal noun Mummifying
Definitions
  1. To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. Hall (1646).

Webster 1913