pyre

Converse of object

• burn: There are burning pyres in my own backyard, because I don't have time to gather in the harvest.
• light: They still haven't lit the pyre at the case closest to us.
• build: Miles is distraught: his bride is deceased, but the least he can do is build a pyre for her Funeral.
• create: There was plenty of wood left to create a funeral pyre.

Adjective modifier

• funeral: The fire of the funeral pyre is lit by the eldest son.
• huge: I am reminded of the huge funeral pyres of cattle carcasses, which we saw last year.
• own: In Western legend, the phoenix, or Red Bird, rises from the ashes of its own funeral pyre to live again.
• open: Broad also spoke of flames from the open funeral pyres being visible from twenty miles away.
• foot-and-mouth: Thursday 14th March Report says foot-and-mouth pyres pose no lasting risk The risks posed by foot-and-mouth pyres are to be discussed in Richmond.
• vast: The family turns a corner and is confronted with a vast pyre of burning cows, but nobody's talking about BSE.

Modifies a noun

• debris: Given the quantity of pyre debris, they must have been close.
• good: This was found to be the case when the distribution of the pyre goods was examined.
• burning: Open pyre burning could handle only a fraction of the balance, not least because it soon attracted a considerable public outcry.

Noun used with modifier

• burning: Way ahead on dusk's horizon I could see the burning funeral pyre of animal carcasses below the Broad Hinton white horse.
• funeral: Broad also spoke of flames from the open funeral pyres being visible from twenty miles away.
• cremation: Less than a mile away was a contemporary cremation pyre site by a stream.
• unlit: There is a sense of hubbub, with the onlookers of both sexes praying and reaching toward the unlit pyre.

Possessives

husband: In this Indian custom, widows would lie on their husband's funeral pyre to die with them.

Preposition: of

• carcass: Way ahead on dusk's horizon I could see the burning funeral pyre of animal carcasses below the Broad Hinton white horse.
• animal: The images of mass graves and pyres of burning animals will live long in the memory.