mummifies

Verb

 * 1) * 1927, P. G. Wodehouse, 'The Small Bachelor', Arrow, 2008, pp 185-6
 * 'I'm sorry weddings depress you, Ferris. Surely when two people love each other and mean to go on loving each other...'
 * 'Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.'
 * 'Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.'