Meanings
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of mummify
'I'm sorry weddings depress you, Ferris. Surely when two people love each other and mean to go on loving each other...' 'Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.'
1927, P. G. Wodehouse, 'The Small Bachelor', Arrow, 2008, pp 185-6
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