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 funeral was closed casket—an uncommon thing for Catholics back then—because my mother did not want people to see the work the undertakers had to do to stitch my father back together.
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Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
Meet Paddy Lynch — undertaker and caretaker of a quirky collection of Detroit businesses.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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
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Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
Meet Paddy Lynch — undertaker and caretaker of a quirky collection of Detroit businesses.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undertaker
Noun
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The funeral director advised against it.—
Sofie Buckminster,
semafor.com,
16 Nov. 2025
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For our story, writer Jennifer Byrne talked with funeral director Brienna Smith, the Chief Operating Officer of Return Home Green Funeral Home in Seattle.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
13 Nov. 2025
Noun
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While other families were prepping their turkeys, a mortician was prepping his body.—
Kimberly Zapata,
Parents,
26 Nov. 2025
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Prosecutors later alleged that the pair killed Griffy together — and the investigation that followed the mortician's murder uncovered the tangled personal and financial ties among the three men.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
25 Nov. 2025
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“Undertaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undertaker. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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