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Synonyms for cremation
krɪˈmeɪ ʃəncre·ma·tion

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  1. cremationnoun

    Synonyms:
    incineration

  2. cremationnoun

    A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.

    Synonyms:
    incineration

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  1. cremationnoun

    the incineration of a dead body

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  1. cremationnoun

    Synonyms:
    burning (especially of the dead)

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  1. cremationnoun

    Synonyms:
    incremation, incineration

    Associated words:
    crematory, crematorium

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  1. List of paraphrases for "cremation":

    crematorium, incineration

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  1. Claudio Cavazzuti:

    Probably there was a change in ideology and a different relationship with the afterlife, and with the sphere of the divine, we can not exclude, however, that cremation became widespread also as a practical response to epidemics, considering the increasing demographic size of the communities and the high degree of mobility and interconnectedness among different regions.

  2. Mike Nicodemus:

    Make no mistake about it, cremation is here to stay, it is the new normal.

  3. Christophe Snoeck:

    Cremation destroys all organic matter [ including DNA ] but all the inorganic matter survives and we know, from the study of tooth enamel, that there is a huge amount of information contained in the inorganic fraction of human remains.

  4. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:

    The Russian people dying here, nobody is counting them, people dying in this war. Do you know The Russian people have brought a cremation chamber with The Russian people ? The Russian people're not going to show the bodies to The Russian people families. The Russian people're not going to tell the mothers that their children died here.

  5. Sureshbabu Muthupandi:

    If this isn't a case of emergency, what is ? I can not allow her cremation without seeing her one last time, i am ready to hire a private jet. I beg the authorities, somebody have mercy on me, please let me see my mother one last time.


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