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
After This Death The Bottom Line Call the undertaker.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Everyone around her, including the prison guards, the undertaker and even the warden, seem unsettled by what’s happening.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
The son of an undertaker, French was born in 1945 on the Fourth of July in Reinbeck, Iowa.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2025
The art world likes to act like an undertaker and pronounce things are dead, like painting or the author.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
Everyone around her, including the prison guards, the undertaker and even the warden, seem unsettled by what’s happening.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
The son of an undertaker, French was born in 1945 on the Fourth of July in Reinbeck, Iowa.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2025
The art world likes to act like an undertaker and pronounce things are dead, like painting or the author.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for undertaker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertaker
Noun
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The legislation mandates the regulation and licensing of mortuary science practitioners, funeral directors, embalmers, cremationists, and natural reductionists.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2025
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Such is the dilemma faced by the Greene family’s fourth-generation funeral director, Arthur (David Alan Grier).—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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During a previous spike in gold prices, Clark said, people were asking morticians for permission to pull gold teeth from the mouths of dead family members.—
Andrea Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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The film will also see the return of Tony Todd as mortician William Bludworth.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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