Definitions for mummies

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mummies mum·my

Spelling: [muhm-ee]

IPA: /ˈmʌm i/

Mummies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in mummies (eimmmsu).

Definitions for mummies

noun

1. the dead body of a human being or animal preserved by the ancient Egyptian process or some similar method of embalming.
2. a dead body dried and preserved by nature.
3. a withered or shrunken living being.
4. a dry, shriveled fruit, tuber, or other plant organ, resulting from any of several fungous diseases.
5. mother1 .

verb (used with object)

1. to make into or cause to resemble a mummy; mummify.

Origin of mummies

1350-1400; Middle English mummie Medieval Latin mummia Arabic mūmiyah mummy, literally, bitumen Persian mūm wax

Examples for mummies

But our plan is to dress our son up as a mummy and take him through the neighborhoods to do his thing.

Then the body had become a "mummy" because it was filled with "Mumiai" or pitch.

This was like his phantom, or, if one may say so, without disrespect--his mummy.

Little high voices called for "mummy," and the children came in.

The first mummy discovered is said to be the body of Remigio Leroy, a French doctor.

I beat the boy—not Peter's boy, our boy—he was rude to mummy.

Some families have one mummy, some families have one daddy, or two families.

Kashkari instead agreed with the Los Angeles Times' Matt Pearce that he looks like “the mummy from The mummy.”

mummy was afraid when people were cross; she liked me to be with her.

In pictures taken after the attack, she was wrapped up like a mummy.