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Cremate

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Cremation 74% connected

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

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Cremation 74% connected

A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

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Adopter noun · 78% connection

A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another recei…

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Antonomasia noun · 78% connection

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…

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Ashy adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

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Burning noun · 78% connection

The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

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Burnt p. p. & a. · 78% connection

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

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Char noun · 78% connection

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

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Cinerary adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

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Cineritious adjective · 78% connection

Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.

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Coke noun · 78% connection

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation,…

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Combustible noun · 78% connection

A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.

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Deflagrate verb · 78% connection

To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagra…

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Degree noun · 78% connection

the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"

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Ember noun · 78% connection

A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a…

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Equate verb · 78% connection

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…

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Firework noun · 78% connection

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials th…

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Flame noun · 78% connection

To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.

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Glaze verb · 78% connection

A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

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Hoecake noun · 78% connection

A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.

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