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cremation
  1. A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “All we knew, though, was that she wanted a small private cremation with only immediate family present.”
      “A new group set up to review burial and cremation legislation has held its first meeting.”
      “The hotly contested question about cremation rites is not surprising, given their crucial status in the local religion.”
cremationism
  1. The advocacy of cremation as a means of disposal of the dead.
cremulator
  1. Device to grind the bone fragments that remain after cremation into fine powder.
crematorium
  1. A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated
  2. Examples:
    1. “Family and friends bade their final farewell at a service at the crematorium as fans gathered outside in the driving rain.”
      “We then had to deal with the crematorium, watch his body disappear behind crude curtains.”
      “Following the service, the parents will collect the ashes from the crematorium and return to China.”
crematory
cremationist
  1. One who advocates the practice of cremation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Colorado is the only state in the nation that doesn't require a license to run a funeral service company or become a funeral director, embalmer or cremationist, Horan says.”
      “The most famous, of course, was Dr William Price, the pioneer cremationist and Chartist rebel, of whom there is a less than satisfactory statue on the square.”
cremator
  1. One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The product of cremation is not ashes in the sense of a powder, but fragments of bone, whose size is determined by the temperature of the cremator or pyre.”
      “Results also indicated that significant reductions in atmospheric emissions can be achieved by optimizing small cremator units for efficiency and specific conditions at each locale.”
      “The fair also provided Facultatieve Technologies with the opportunity to inform visitors about the various benefits of its equipment, including the FT III cremator.”
crem
  1. (Britain, colloquial) crematorium
cremationists
  1. plural of cremationist
crematoria
  1. plural of crematorium
  2. Examples:
    1. “He is part of the team investigating what is happening to the growing volume of human ashes now removed from crematoria.”
      “Escalation in firewood prices and air pollution led to the establishment of electric crematoria.”
      “Six death camps were built in occupied Poland to systematically kill people who were gassed and their bodies burned in crematoria.”
crematoriums
  1. plural of crematorium
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Cemetery of the Year competition is open to all British cemeteries, burial grounds, churchyards or crematoriums.”
      “Pet cemeteries and crematoriums have never been more popular and business is booming.”
      “Identified bodies are usually released to funeral homes or crematoriums within 48 hours of their arrival at the morgue.”
cremulators
  1. plural of cremulator
cremations
crematories
  1. plural of crematory
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “While the safe temperature set for crematories is 850 degrees Celsius, those at the parlor's crematories ranged between 83 and 436 degrees Celsius.”
      “Experimental studies and records of modern crematories suggest that approximately 643,000 kcal of heat is required to cremate an average 70-kg human body.”
      “Authorisation was also given for two small individual crematories.”
cremators
crems
  1. plural of crem
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