cremate
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹimeɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹɪˈmeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kɹəˈmeɪt/
Verb edit
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.”
Related terms edit
Translations edit
burn to ashes
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incinerate a body
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Anagrams edit
Italian edit
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cremate
- inflection of cremare:
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Latin edit
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cremāte
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Verb edit
cremate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of cremar combined with te