mortician
/mor-TISH-un/nounan undertaker; a person who prepares the dead for burial
“The mortician spoke with practiced, careful gentleness.”
- Synonyms
- undertaker, funeral director
- Root
- mort- (death)
- Memory hook
- mort (death) + ician: a professional of death's arrangements.
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