mummify

Other forms of mummify

past tense or participle

mummified

present participle

mummifying·

third person

mummifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mummify

What does mummify mean?

mummify means "preserve while making lifeless". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mummify?

mummify has 3 syllables: mum-mi-fy. The stress falls on "mum". In IPA it is /ˈmʌməˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for mummify?

Close synonyms include dry up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mummify a common word?

mummify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mummify?

72 words rhyme with mummify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.