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  • adjective Not embalmed.

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un- +‎ embalmed

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Examples

  • Cremating an unembalmed body (or burying it in real dirt) would seem obviously less costly and more eco-friendly.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Listen, the morgue cannot hold a body unembalmed indefinitely.

    CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2007 2007

  • You need to have a blood specimen that is from an unembalmed person in order to do any type of testing like this.

    CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007 2007

  • If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then thou art as far removed from the Almighty as the flushings of cholera mixed with the decaying flesh of the unembalmed corpse.

    Think Progress » NBC: Saddam’s Execution Could ‘Fuel The Civil War’ 2006

  • The guide carefully explains that this is caused from a natural muscle movement during the process of rigor in an unembalmed body.

    The Mummies of Guanajuato: Powerful Memento Mori 2001

  • The guide carefully explains that this is caused from a natural muscle movement during the process of rigor in an unembalmed body.

    The Mummies of Guanajuato: Powerful Memento Mori 2001

  • He walked to the last of three stainless steel tables and took the unembalmed body in his arms.

    Violets Are Blue Patterson, James 2001

  • He described the body as being "that of a well-developed, well-nourished, unembalmed white female."

    My Dark Places Ellroy, James, 1948- 1996

  • The body is cold and unembalmed with full rigor and posterior dependent fixed lividity.

    The Concrete Blonde Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1994

  • The body is cold and unembalmed with full rigor and posterior dependent fixed lividity.

    The Black Echo Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1992

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