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mortician

noun

mȯr-ˈti-shən

as in undertaker

a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation the mortician will take care of all of the arrangements for the funeral

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Recent Examples of mortician While other families were prepping their turkeys, a mortician was prepping his body. —

Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 26 Nov. 2025 Prosecutors later alleged that the pair killed Griffy together — and the investigation that followed the mortician's murder uncovered the tangled personal and financial ties among the three men. —

Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025 In October 2012, Byron Griffy, a respected mortician, was found dead on his remote ranch, shot execution-style. —

Peter White, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025 In the years following, Hughes left California politics and started a second career as a mortician in Oregon. —

Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mortician

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undertaker

Noun

No caveats or asterisks for the team that’s become the NBA’s grave-digging undertaker.

— Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
This way to pass the time dates back to the 1880s, just a few years after the phone was invented, and started with an undertaker, of all people, getting called to fetch the dead body of a not-so-dead woman.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Feb. 2026