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mummification

English

  1. 🔊 embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
  2. 🔊 a condition resembling that of a mummy
    “bureaucratic mummification in red tape”
  3. 🔊 (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color

Spanish

  1. 🔊 momificación mummification

Similar words

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