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pyre

[ pahyuhr ]

noun

  1. a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
  2. such a pile for burning a dead body, especially as part of a funeral rite, as in India.


pyre

/ paɪə /

noun

  1. a heap or pile of wood or other combustible material, esp one used for cremating a corpse


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pyre1

1650–60; < Latin pyra < Greek pyrá hearth, funeral pile

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pyre1

C17: from Latin pyra, from Greek pura hearth, from pur fire

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Example Sentences

Thrown into the Middle East pyre, the Zionism-racism charge has been an accelerant, angering, alienating, polarizing both sides.

Spectators took photographs of the pyre on their mobile phones.

Daenerys built the funeral pyre for her husband, Khal Drogo, here and hatched three dragons after being abandoned by her khlassar.

The light was beginning to fade and a funeral pyre was still smoking eerily in front of the temple.

A cordon of soldiers, placed at a distance from the pyre, kept the inquisitive from drawing too near.

Fergan and his assistants withdrew to the mob which the file of soldiers was holding back from the pyre.

The pyre was then lighted with a torch by a relative, who kept his face averted during the act.

He threw himself upon the pyre, and was consumed like a log of wood, together with the chamber.

Out of that funeral pyre her feverish thoughts builded a frightful dream.

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