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Mummify

To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.

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Continue 76% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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Embalm 76% connected

To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead bo…

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Preserve 76% connected

To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

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Shrink 76% connected

To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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Shrivel 76% connected

To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with…

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Uphold 76% connected

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

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Wither 76% connected

To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

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Mummy 74% connected

A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of p…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mummy 74% connected

A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of p…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Conservation noun · 78% connection

the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources

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Biodiversity noun · 78% connection

the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole); "a high level of biodiversity is desirabl…

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Conserve verb · 78% connection

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not…

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Defunctness noun · 78% connection

no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"

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Endangered adjective · 78% connection

(of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction; "an endangered species"

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Extinction noun · 78% connection

no longer in existence; "the extinction of a species"

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Habitat noun · 78% connection

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

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Home ground noun · 78% connection

the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

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Keep up verb · 78% connection

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not…

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Loss noun · 78% connection

the act of losing someone or something; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock"

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Maintain verb · 78% connection

keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not…

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Modesty noun · 78% connection

formality and propriety of manner

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Protect verb · 78% connection

shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain"

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Protected adjective · 78% connection

kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss; "the most protected spot I could find"

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Reserve noun · 78% connection

formality and propriety of manner

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Restoration noun · 78% connection

a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.

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Threatened adjective · 78% connection

(of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered; "the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered on…

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Wildlife noun · 78% connection

all living things (except people) that are undomesticated; "chemicals could kill all the wildlife"

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Acicular adjective · 78% connection

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.

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Act verb · 78% connection

behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a…

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Aplustre noun · 78% connection

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

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Assort verb · 78% connection

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to class…

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Auriculated adjective · 78% connection

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (…

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Banister noun · 78% connection

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…

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Bleat verb · 78% connection

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

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Buff noun · 78% connection

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other ani…

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Cat's-eye noun · 78% connection

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to other ge…

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Clocklike adjective · 78% connection

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.

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Clubbed adjective · 78% connection

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.

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Corpuscle noun · 78% connection

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellul…

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Crest verb · 78% connection

To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.

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Crystalloid adjective · 78% connection

Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.

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Cultirostral adjective · 78% connection

Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

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Durian noun · 78% connection

huge fruit native to southeastern Asia ‘smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven’; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts

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Elbow noun · 78% connection

Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; als…

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Elliptic geometry noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle; "Bernhard Riemann pionee…

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