mummify
英 ['mʌmɪfaɪ]
美['mʌmɪ'fai]
释义
vt. 将…做成木乃伊；使干瘪；弄干保存
vi. 成木乃伊状；干瘪
词态变化
第三人称单数: mummifies;过去式: mummified;过去分词: mummified;现在分词: mummifying;
中文词源
mummify 使成木乃伊来自mummy,木乃伊，-fy,使。
英文词源
- mummify (v.)
- 1620s, from French momifier, from momie "mummy," from Medieval Latin mumia (see mummy) + -fier "to make into" (see -fy). Related: Mummified; mummifying.
英英释意
- 1. preserve while making lifeless;
- "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of"
- 2. remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it;
- "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaos"
- 3. dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture;
- "a mummified body was found"
