cremated

Reduced to ash

Cremated is the past tense of cremate, meaning to burn a dead body to ite.

The practice reduces remains to bone fragments and ash, typically collected in an urn.

She was cremated according to her wishes.

We scattered his cremated remains at sea.

ashes

urn

Decorative container for ashes

inurnment · columbarium · keepsake · niche · relic · granular · particles · locket · pendant · resting

ritual

ceremony

Formal event marking occasions

veneration · last rites · immolation · obsequies · funerary · Ganges · offerings · sacred · Hindu · Buddhist

process

pyre

Funeral burning heap

carbonize · char · retort · heat · thermal · calcine · oxidize · reduce · consume · fire

mourning

grief

Intense sorrow from loss

condolences · remembrance · memorial · eulogy · wake · grieving · solace · consolation · closure · tribute

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body disposal method

crematedburied

Placed beneath earth

interred · entombed · embalmed · mummified · laid to rest

fire/burning state

cremateddrowned

Died by submersion

frozen · submerged · waterlogged · flooded · wet

Phrases
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