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cremation

/kri-mey-shuhn/US // krɪˈmeɪ ʃən //

火化,火葬,焚烧,烧掉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of reducing a dead body to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite:The others in the family want to have a private cremation, followed by a memorial service where we scatter the ashes.

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Examples

  • You can write notes and leave them under her hand to be cremated with her.

  • Britta Lokting interviews an entrepreneur trying to help save the climate by composting human bodies instead of burying or cremating them.

  • Then Heal STL was burned down Monday like a moribund body for cremation.

  • Cammue, whose agency has now performed a thorough assessment of the current cremation process at Boystown, is extremely concerned.

  • "Cremation is not necessary to have safe and dignified burial," Tarik Jasarevic tells me.

  • That is not an option for Tamerlan, as Islamic law prohibits cremation.

  • Last November, for example, I managed to track down a celebrated tantric at a cremation ground near Birbhum in West Bengal.

  • Three hundred sesterces were expended on the funeral, fifty of which were to be distributed at the cremation of the body.

  • It is worth noting that a number of specimens were found in the cremation cemetery at Borgstedterfeld near Rendsburg.

  • I am sure if he had been asked, he would in some way have indicated that he preferred cremation to any other mode of disposal.

  • I used my Security papers to get the body for special autopsy instead of the usual immediate cremation.

  • Consequently, the poems are of one age, an age of cremation and of burial in barrows, with no ghost worship.