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CREMATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cremation mean?
• CREMATION (noun)
The noun CREMATION has 1 sense:
1. the incineration of a dead body
Familiarity information: CREMATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The incineration of a dead body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cremation" is a kind of...):
incineration (the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes)
Derivation:
cremate (reduce to ashes)
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