Word of the week: "crematorium"

Source: "Tide of bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan" by Jay Alabaster and Todd Pitman, 14 March 2011.

Sentence: "A tide of bodies washed up along Japans' coastline Monday, overwhelming crematoriums, exhausting supplies of body bags and adding to the spiraling humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis after the massive earthquake and tsunami."

Definition(s): —noun a crematory → "crematory" —noun a place, as a funeral establishment, at which cremation is done. → "cremate" —verb (used with object) to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral right.

Works Cited

Alabaster, Jay and Todd Pitman. "Tide of bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan." Yahoo! News: Business. Yahoo! Inc, 14 March 2011. Web. 14 March 2011.

"cremate." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC, 2011. Web. 14 March 2011.

"crematorium." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC, 2011. Web. 14 March 2011.

"crematory." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC, 2011. Web. 14 March 2011.