Embalms [verb]

Definition of Embalms:

preserve, immortalize

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Sentence/Example of Embalms:

If a man was wealthy, it cost his family as much as one thousand dollars to embalm his body suitably to his rank.

Even natron and oils were left, so that it might re-embalm itself, if the worms came to life in its members.

Two days later he gave Nebenchari permission to embalm Nitetis' body in the Egyptian manner, according to her last wish.

God knows how I embalm every such day,—I do not believe that one of the forty is confounded with another in my memory.

The whole mountain which dominates Terracina, is covered with orange and lemon trees, which embalm the air in a delicious manner.

Again had this supernaturally elusive heroine upset the plans of one who had essayed to embalm her virtues in a literary mould.

The infamous informer has gone to oblivion, and we will not aid even to embalm her name in contempt.

In this consecrated spot may memory come to embalm his name, and love bedew with her fondest tears the turf which wraps his clay.

But the Indian was asleep,—perhaps dreaming of some Múra enemy,—whose head he would have been happy to embalm.

A tear or two—brushed away as soon as they come—is all that youth gives to embalm such treasure of love!