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

Princeton's WordNet

1. cremationnoun

   the incineration of a dead body

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1. • Incineration

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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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How to use cremation in a sentence?

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. Betty Schirmer:

   She was against cremation and then here's A.B. telling Detective Wagner that she chose to be cremated. And Detective Wagner didn't question.

3. Kristoffer Hughes:

   Cremation produces significant carbon emissions and traditional burial takes up land and resources, human composting gives us another option - one that's deeply ecological and spiritually meaningful.

4. Carla Linford:

   The ASA acknowledged that the setting of the ad was intended to show a send-off taking place at home after Pure Cremation, but ruled that the ad needed to be explicit that Pure Cremation is not attended by family, so the wording onscreen( which previously said there was no crematorium service) has been amended to reflect Pure Cremation.

5. Christophe Snoeck:

   My research goal was to assess what information could still be obtained from archeological human remains even after cremation, i managed to demonstrate that some geographical information still remained in cremated bone and this new development is what enable us to go back to the human remains from Stonehenge and carry out this exciting study.