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verbdisembalm (third-person singular simple present disembalms, present participle disembalming, simple past and past participle disembalmed)
present singular third person disembalms · participle present disembalming · participle past disembalmed · past disembalmed
- transitiveHypothetically, to undo the embalming of.
[…] the disembalming and unbandaging of all literary mummies […]
1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter III, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 711 more example
Her thoughts perturb the broken urn / And seem the bones to disembalm: / She sifts the dust of days gone by; / Troubling the old eternity.
1879, Thomas Gordon Hake, Legends of the Morrow, page 8
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