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disembalm

disembalm verb: hypothetically, to undo the embalming of.

Verb

disembalm (third-person singular simple present disembalms, present participle disembalming, simple past and past participle disembalmed)

  1. (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the embalming of.
    • […] the disembalming and unbandaging of all literary mummies […]1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter III, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 71
    • Her thoughts perturb the broken urn / And seem the bones to disembalm: / She sifts the dust of days gone by; / Troubling the old eternity.1879, Thomas Gordon Hake, Legends of the Morrow, page 8

Forms of disembalm

third-person singular presentdisembalms
present participledisembalming
past participledisembalmed
pastdisembalmed

Origin of disembalm

From dis- + embalm.

Questions about disembalm

What does disembalm mean?
Disembalm means hypothetically, to undo the embalming of.
What part of speech is disembalm?
Disembalm is a verb.
What is the past tense of disembalm?
The past tense of disembalm is disembalmed.

Words near disembalm in the dictionary

  1. diselane
  2. diselanes
  3. diselenide
  4. diselenides
  5. diselenium
  6. disembalm
  7. disembalmed
  8. disembalming
  9. disembalms
  10. disembark
  11. disembarkation

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