Keep and Mummify

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Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Mummify and keep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mummify" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Mummify verb - Remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it.

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Keep and mummify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Mummify".

Nearby Words: mummy, mummified, mummification, mummifying

In The Cat Mummy by Jacqueline Wilson, the child heroine tries to mummify her dead pet (as she was learning about Ancient Egypt in school.) She can't understand why her family is horrified that she wanted to wrap the body in bandages and keep it in her room.

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