Definitions for embalm

embalm em·balm

Spelling: [em-bahm]
IPA: /ɛmˈbɑm/

Embalm is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in embalm (abelmm).

Definitions for embalm

verb (used with object)

  1. to treat (a dead body) so as to preserve it, as with chemicals, drugs, or balsams.
  2. to preserve from oblivion; keep in memory:
  3. to cause to remain unchanged; prevent the development of.
  4. to impart a balmy fragrance to.

Origin of embalm

1300-50; Middle English embalmen, embaumen Old French emba(u)smer, equivalent to em- em-1 + -ba(u)smer, verbal derivative of ba(u

Examples for embalm

The persons who embalm the bodies are artists who have learnt this secret from their ancestors.

"They will not bring them here; they will not embalm them," said she.

We treasure a good thing when we hear it, and love to embalm it.

He alone can embalm the past, and welcome the tidings of the future.

For it was his business to notice things, and embalm them afterward in ink.

They are to give my son and Sarah a beautiful funeral, and embalm their remains.

And if there were, they had no recording scribes to embalm their efforts in history.

This was the reason why they took so much pains to embalm the body.

With delight, it is to be hoped; my poem will embalm your memory for posterity.

"But they will require the uninjured corpse of you, to embalm it," said Pentaur.

Word Value for embalm
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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