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
The considerate undertakers came and carried her downstairs and out the front door, wheeled her down the drive and away.
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Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Formaldehyde, the chemical of choice for undertakers and embalmers, is also used in products like furniture and clothes.
—Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
The thickets contain police officers, undertakers, insurance agents, attorneys, claims adjusters, benefits counsellors, human-resources workers, notaries, friends.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
After This Death The Bottom Line Call the undertaker.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
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Geoff Dyer, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Formaldehyde, the chemical of choice for undertakers and embalmers, is also used in products like furniture and clothes.
—Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
The thickets contain police officers, undertakers, insurance agents, attorneys, claims adjusters, benefits counsellors, human-resources workers, notaries, friends.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
After This Death The Bottom Line Call the undertaker.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertaker
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Some of the connections are easy to spot: Marty and Felicia are chaperones at Chuck's school dance in Act III, and Carl Lumbly's Sam Yarbrough, who Marty encounters on his walk to Felicia's, is the funeral director when Chuck's grandfather (Mark Hamill) dies.—
Ashley Boucher,
EW.com,
6 June 2025
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Chapelle, a retired funeral director, now goes on miles-long hikes.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
2 June 2025
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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
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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
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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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