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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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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 30 Nov. 2021.

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