Definitions for embalms

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embalms em·balm

Spelling: [em-bahm]

IPA: /ɛmˈbɑm/

Embalms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in embalms (abelmms).

Definitions for embalms

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

Origin of embalms

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 embalms

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.

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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.