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EMBALMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("embalmer" is a kind of...):
funeral director; funeral undertaker; mortician; undertaker (one whose business is the management of funerals)
Derivation:
embalm (preserve a dead body)