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Cremation

//kɹɪˈmeɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse. countable, uncountable

    "Cremation removes a significant amount of "closure" from the process of death."

  2. 2
    the incineration of a dead body wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cremātiō, cremātiōnis; equivalent to cremate + -ion.

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