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How to pronounce mummy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum
Type of female parent, mother
Type Words
Type of body, dead body
Derivation mummify

Examples of mummy

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If you found a 2,000-year-old Peruvian mummy that had a Greek artifact with him.
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Forensic analysis of his mummy has put his age of death at about 17 to 19 years.
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The soldier accidentally opens the tomb of a mummy, unleashing an ancient curse.
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They wanted everyone to see that they had a mummy and this is what she was like.
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Until now, scientists had assumed a female mummy was inside the Egyptian coffin.
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Groft said a video of a new CT scan will enable visitors to see inside the mummy.
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The case, patented by Dr. Almond Fisk in 1848, has a distinct child mummy vibe.
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The new techniques developed for the mummy scan are just improving the process.
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A golden mask found on the mummy of Psusennes I presides over the gold gallery.
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More examples
  • Ma: informal terms for a mother
  • A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)
  • A mummy is a corpse whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness, very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs. ...
  • A mummy, in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, is an undead creature whose corpse has been mummified and animated, often through the power of an evil god of the Egyptian pantheon such as Set.
  • Mummy is an English movie starring Reema, Nadeem and Atiqa Odho.
  • The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 novel written by Jane C. Loudon. It concerns an Egyptian mummy named Cheops who is brought back in to life in the 22nd century. ...
  • The Mummy is a 1932 horror film from Universal Studios directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest. The movie also features Zita Johann, David Manners and Edward Van Sloan. It was shot in Cantil, California, Universal City, and the Mojave Desert.
  • The Mummy is a 1959 British Hammer Horror film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
  • A substance used in medicine prepared from mummified flesh; A pulp; An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians; Any naturally preserved human or animal body; To mummify