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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a condition resembling that of a mummy;
- Example: "bureaucratic mummification in red tape"

2. (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color;
[syn: dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis, mummification]

3. embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mummification \Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Mummify.] The act of making a mummy. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mummification n 1: a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape" 2: (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color [syn: dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis, mummification] 3: embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "mummification": air-drying, anhydration, ashes, blast-freezing, body, bones, bottling, brining, cadaver, canning, carcass, carrion, clay, corning, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, curing, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dehumidification, dehydration, desiccation, drainage, dry bones, dry-curing, drying, drying up, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, embalming, embalmment, evaporation, food for worms, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation, irradiation, jerking, late lamented, marination, mortal remains, mummy, organic remains, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, relics, reliquiae, remains, salting, seasoning, skeleton, smoking, stiff, stuffing, taxidermy, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, tinning, withering