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cremate
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English
Etymology
First attested in 1889; borrowed from Latin cremātus, perfect passive participle of cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹimeɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹɪˈmeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kɹəˈmeɪt/
Verb
cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)
- (transitive) To burn something to ashes.
- (transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
- I want to be cremated when I die.
- 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 422:
- “You didn’t bury Dad. You burned him.”
“We cremated him, Benny. For humans, the word is cremated. And we chose to do that because that’s what they do in Japan.”
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Translations
burn to ashes
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incinerate a body
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Anagrams
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Italian
Verb
cremate
- inflection of cremare:
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
cremāte
Spanish
Verb
cremate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of cremar combined with te
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