as in funeral director
a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation the undertaker wore black clothes and a solemn expression

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Recent Examples of undertaker Watching the undertaker struggle with Tiff was hilarious. Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025 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 The priest spoke to him in the room, the undertaker in the corridor. Anne Enright, New Yorker, 27 July 2025 McGrath as Kenny Klaus, the town’s undertaker, who is old enough to remember seeing Richard and Kristen in Our Town. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for undertaker
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Noun
  • Prior to becoming a priest, Storey spent several years as a funeral director in Louisburg, Kansas.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Fearing foul play, the funeral director sent Sonam’s body back to the ME’s office for an autopsy.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Now, years later, Hollis works at the funeral home as a mortician and is preparing to take over as director once her father retires.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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