单词	pyre
释义	pyrepyre /paɪə $ paɪr/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpyre Origin: 1600-1700 Latin pyra, from Greek, from pyr ‘fire’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But what if everything was burned on a pyre sixty years ago? Huge pyres of old railway sleepers and fence posts are being built to burn the bodies. M., Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre. Nine days they lamented him; then they laid him on a lofty pyre and set fire to it. She rode around the blazing pyre. Smoke from Scathach's pyre was black, rising high into the dusk. The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre. The dead have ritually been interred in pyramids, cremated on burning pyres, and sunk beneath the oceans' waves. word sets WORD SETS► Death asphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► funeral pyre  Ramdas set fire to the funeral pyre. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► funeral · A special funeral pyre was built in the nearby woods to cremate deceased Hindu servicemen.· M., Ramdas, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre.· The birds returned, invaded Bird Spirit Land and flocked and swarmed above the funeral pyre.· There was something noble, almost Roman about it all: Let the steel industry be my funeral pyre.· Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke, he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time.· They held that a suicide should not be honored with a funeral pyre and urn-burial.· She crawled closer to the funeral pyre, rejoicing in its warmth, and slept.· So, haunted by images of funeral pyres of livestock, how far should we go to support farmers and auxiliary industries? a high pile of wood on which a dead body is placed to be burned in a funeral ceremony:  a funeral pyre
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