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PYRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
Synonyms:
funeral pyre; pyre
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("pyre" is a kind of...):
agglomerate; cumulation; cumulus; heap; mound; pile (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)
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