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crematorium
[ kree-muh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-, krem-uh- ]
noun
- a crematory.
crematorium
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noun
- a building in which corpses are cremated
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of crematorium1
Example Sentences
I distinctly remember the heat and fumes from 37 funeral pyres burning simultaneously under the April sun at a Delhi crematorium.
Headlines called the ranch an “extermination camp,†home to underground “crematoria and, even, the “Mexican Auschwitz.â€
The funeral was followed by a private service at Thirsk crematorium and the family asked people to donate to the Police Children's Charity in her honour.
By the winter of 1941, the Nazis had constructed their first gas chamber and crematorium at Auschwitz.
But the ruins of two gas chambers and crematoria remain, blown up as the Nazis sought to destroy the evidence.
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