crematorium

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Over the course of the meeting, resident Daniel Gilbert asked council to clarify whether the crematorium could be asked to shut down if, after it began operating, problems of visual pollution or smells occurred.

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  • When the cortege left for the crematorium, he lagged behind as arranged, then quickly cut through a side street. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
  • Her mouth itself was the yawning maw of a grave; her breath stunk like a crematorium: burning flesh, cold damp ashes, and death I bet there's no such thing, Holly had whispered in Ivy's ear the first time Nana told them about Ash-Mouth, but Ivy knew better, because she could close her eyes and picture her just the way Nana described her. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#2
  • We sang some bright hymns and the priest said a prayer in the crematorium, as I wished Geoffrey de Freitas also died that year after a long illness.
  • The other larger graveyard or crematorium is the Scott County E-waste Center that's free for Rock Island County residents who drop off and for Scott County residents who have it picked up curbside.
  • (REUTERS / Amir Cohen) if the shutdown of extermination camps began as imagination of a land without barbed wire or the crematorium, —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
 

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/kriməˈtoʊriəm/
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