cremains
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I am writing to you to object to the word cremains, which was used by your representative when he met with my mother and me two days after my father's death.
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- plural noun The ashes that remain after cremation of a corpse.
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Interment of the cremains will be at a later date in the Pioneer Cemetery under the direction of Fulkerson Funeral Home of Sidney.
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I am writing to you to object to the word cremains, which was used by your representative when he met with my mother and me two days after my father's death.
— NPR Topics: News - Interment of his cremains will be in the Sidney Cemetery.
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Juanita Sellers Stone, who owned the business when it closed 3 ½ years ago, told the AJC Thursday she knew the cremains were in the storage units and finding them was not "a discovery."
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Burial of the cremains will be at a later date.
— Marshall Democrat-News Headlines
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- Blend of cremated, past participle of cremate and remains.
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/ (krĭ-mānzˈ)/
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