Definition of "mummify" [mum•mi•fy]

• To make into a mummy by embalming and drying. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to shrivel and dry up. (verb-transitive)
• To shrivel or dry up like a mummy. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A small cotton ball damp with formocresol is placed to "mummify" the pulp stumps and to sterilize the area."
• "Australian bees 'mummify' their beetle enemy alive"
• "Yes | No | Report from Elmer Fudd wrote 18 weeks 3 days ago if time is not an issue, expose it to air in the freezer and the freezer burn will eventually mummify it"