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- embalm somebody/something
to prevent a dead body from decaying (= being destroyed by natural processes) by treating it with special substances to preserve it 对（尸体）进行防腐处理 Oxford Collocations DictionaryEmbalm is used with these nouns as the object:- body
- corpse
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French embaumer, from em- ‘in’ + baume ‘balm’, variant of basme, from Latin balsamum from Greek balsamon.