English-Spanish translations for pyre

• pira
  Recuerdo bien las enormes piras funerarias de animales ardiendo. I well remember the huge funeral pyres of burning animals.
  De hecho, en los Países Bajos se llevaron a cabo vacunaciones para intentar evitar las piras funerarias masivas. In the Netherlands, they actually carried out vaccinations to try and stop the mass funeral pyres.
  Millones de animales fueron sacrificados como medida de precaución y piras gigantes lo quemaron todo. Millions of animals were slaughtered as a precautionary measure and gigantic pyres burned everything.

Definition of pyre

• A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned
• Any heap or pile of combustibles

Examples

• For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31

Related words

• empyrean
• Midi-Pyrénées
• pyrexia
• Pyrenean
• pyrenoid
• Pyrenees
• pyretic
• Pyrex
• empyreal