mummification.

Preservation of a body through drying, natural conditions, or deliberate treatment that greatly slows decay.

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Words that belong together

• natural mummification
• ritual mummification

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The chamber's dryness had produced natural mummification.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.