/ English Dictionary |
CREMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The incineration of a dead body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cremation" is a kind of...):
incineration (the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes)
Derivation:
cremate (reduce to ashes)