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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

Verb

cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)

  1. (transitive) To burn something to ashes.
  2. (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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Italian

Verb

cremate

  1. inflection of cremare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

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Latin

Verb

cremāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cremō

Spanish

Verb

cremate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of cremar combined with te

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