Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the incineration of a dead body;
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.
[1913 Webster]
Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T.
Browne.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cremation
n 1: the incineration of a dead body
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