Corpse
Corpse noun - A dead body.
Usage example: the startling discovery of a corpse required a call to the police
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Mummy
Mummy noun - A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt).
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Corpse and mummy are semantically related in preserved body topic. You can use "Corpse" instead a noun "Mummy".
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- To have this character be a mummy as well, all of this either needs to happen six thousand years ago, or the luckless corpse becomes the new body of a mummy who's lost their original.
Source: Special Snowflake Syndrome -
Mummy Never Found the Body: Averted; as mummies temporarily leave a corpse, there's even extra health levels to describe how badly the body is damaged, like Scorched and Pulverized.
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Mummy: Unlike the Mummies that appeared in the other Mummy films, Imhotep only appears as the archetypal shambling, bandaged corpse for a few minutes, and spends the rest of the film looking perfectly human.
Source: Film / The Mummy (1932)
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