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What is a pyre?

What is a pyre? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.
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I let out a strangled gasp, recoiling from the corpse on the pyre as if its cold skin had burned my fingers.
This girl was blazing like a pyre of psymantic energy, with waves of blue and white constantly washing over her.
On Wednesday, her body was cremated on a funeral pyre at a Buddhist temple, while her husband Josef watched silently.
Following this the proud king abdicated his throne to his son Anandapala and committed suicide by climbing onto his own funeral pyre.
It has the one baht coin from the Paris mint set in it, and the plaque shows the funeral pyre.
The most effective of the photographs is Gandhi's reflective and praying mood, beside the burning pyre of his wife.

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