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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In 1989, Sconce was sentenced to five years in prison for mutilating corpses, holding mass cremations at $55 a body and hiring strongmen to assault three rival morticians.
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Angel Saunders, People.com, 19 May 2025
Tony Todd Image Since these films feature a rotating main cast and an invisible villain, Tony Todd as the menacing mortician William Bludworth is one of few recurring characters in the franchise.
—Kellina Moore, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The film would find its connection to Clive Barker with the casting of Tony Todd as a mortician.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2025
Katie Holmes is a delight as a fed-up mortician’s wife more than ready to fly the coop.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 May 2025
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Angel Saunders, People.com, 19 May 2025
Tony Todd Image Since these films feature a rotating main cast and an invisible villain, Tony Todd as the menacing mortician William Bludworth is one of few recurring characters in the franchise.
—Kellina Moore, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The film would find its connection to Clive Barker with the casting of Tony Todd as a mortician.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 May 2025
Katie Holmes is a delight as a fed-up mortician’s wife more than ready to fly the coop.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mortician
undertaker
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This discovery becomes a tear in the banal fabric of everyday life, in which Maria reluctantly assumes the triad of caretaker, undertaker and executor – faced with a series of subdued and, at times, perverse bureaucratic exchanges.—
Olivia Bennett,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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The priest spoke to him in the room, the undertaker in the corridor.—
Anne Enright,
New Yorker,
27 July 2025
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“Mortician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortician. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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