CREMATION

Pronunciation (US):

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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)

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