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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertaker
Noun
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From masquerading hit-men to opportunistic funeral directors, from Orson Welles to Lorenz Hart, a Linklater hero is always an operator.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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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
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After Julia outed their affair in the one true bombshell of the season and Adriana wowed everyone by bringing up a Haitian mortician who got a free coffee maker (an excellent Halloween costume, BTW), the next season will just be the two of them sniping and shouting.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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In October 2012, Byron Griffy, a respected mortician, was found dead on his remote ranch, shot execution-style.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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