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English
Etymology
From dis- + embalm.
Verb
disembalm (third-person singular simple present disembalms, present participle disembalming, simple past and past participle disembalmed)
- (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the embalming of.
1879, Thomas Gordon Hake, Legends of the Morrow, page 8:Her thoughts perturb the broken urn / And seem the bones to disembalm: / She sifts the dust of days gone by; / Troubling the old eternity.