cremation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cremation
    n 1: the incineration of a dead body

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cremation \Cre*ma"tion\ (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.]
   A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
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         Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "cremation":
      blazing, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization,
      cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation,
      cracking, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation,
      distillation, distilling, flaming, funeral pile, incineration,
      oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyre, pyrolysis,
      reduction to ashes, refining, scorching, scorification, searing,
      self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake,
      thermogenesis, vesication

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