Pyre

/ˈpaɪɚ/

Synonyms for "pyre" (50 found)

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Noun(1 words)
funeral pyre

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cheerful firecombustionconflagrationcorposantcozy firecrackling firecremationcrematorydeath firefen firefireflameflashing pointflicker
Noun(1 words)
cremation pile

Related words (25)

flickering flameforest firefox firefuneral pilefuneral pyreignis fatuusignitionincinerationinglelambent flamemarshfireopen firepileprairie fireraging firereduction to ashessea of flamessheet of firesignal beaconsmudge fire
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three-alarm firetwo-alarm firewatch firewildfirewitch fire

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cremation pyrefuneral pyre

Collocations

6 entries
ceremonial pyrecremation pyrefuneral pyremassive pyreritual pyrewooden pyre

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.

Source: tatoeba (892308)

The pyre burns the dead, but anxiety burns the living.

Source: tatoeba (2563097)

"Leave me, pray, / and bid me, as a shrouded corpse, farewell. / For death, this hand will find for me the way, / or foes who spoil will pity me and slay. / Light is the loss of sepulchre or pyre."

Source: tatoeba (6860008)

On Monday evening at six, the funeral pyre will be lit by his widow and by his son—the current king of Cambodia.

Source: tatoeba (12061749)

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