"cremate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈkɹimeɪt/ [General-American], /kɹɪˈmeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /kɹəˈmeɪt/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cremate.wav Forms: cremates [present, singular, third-person], cremating [participle, present], cremated [participle, past], cremated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|cremō||to burn to ashes; to cremate}} Latin cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)
  1. (transitive) To burn something to ashes. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Fire Translations (burn to ashes): изпепелявам (izpepeljavam) (Bulgarian), incinerar (Catalan), 焚毀 (Chinese Mandarin), 焚毁 (fénhuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), brænde (Danish), polttaa tuhkaksi (Finnish), incinérer (French), einäschern (German), hamvaszt (Hungarian), elhamvaszt (Hungarian), kremacar (Ido), cremō (Latin), whakapungarehu (Maori), cremar (Portuguese), incinera (Romanian), сжига́ть (sžigátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сжечь (sžečʹ) [perfective] (Russian), испепеля́ть (ispepeljátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), испепели́ть (ispepelítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), incinerar (Spanish), bränna (Swedish), เผา (pǎo) (Thai)
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  2. (transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial). Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Burial Translations (incinerate a body): изгарям (izgarjam) (Bulgarian), кремирам (kremiram) (Bulgarian), incinerar (Catalan), 焚化 (fénhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), kremere (Danish), kremacii (Esperanto), krematoida (Finnish), polttohaudata (Finnish), incinérer (French), crématiser (French), kremieren (German), שרף גווייה (saráf gviyá) (Hebrew), elhamvaszt (Hungarian), kremacar (Ido), créam (Irish), cremare (Italian), incinerare (Italian), 火葬する (kasō-suru) (alt: かそうする) (Japanese), បូជា (bouciə) (Khmer), បូជាសព (bouciə sɑp) (Khmer), tahu tūpāpaku (Maori), whakapungarehu (Maori), kremere (Norwegian Bokmål), kremere (Norwegian Nynorsk), kremera (Norwegian Nynorsk), kremować [imperfective] (Polish), skremować [perfective] (Polish), cremar (Portuguese), incinera (Romanian), креми́ровать (kremírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), incinerar (Spanish), kremera (Swedish), ฌาปนกิจ (chaa-bpà-ná-gìt) (Thai), เผา (pǎo) (Thai), yakmak (Turkish), hoả táng (Vietnamese), amlosgi (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-cremate-en-verb-MMd7mD5S Disambiguation of Burial: 1 99 Disambiguation of 'incinerate a body': 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cremains, cremator, crematory, incremate, noncremated, uncremated Related terms: cremation, crematorium

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To burn something to ashes."
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          "sense": "burn to ashes",
          "word": "kremacar"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "burn to ashes",
          "word": "whakapungarehu"
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          "sense": "burn to ashes",
          "word": "cremar"
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          "roman": "sžigátʹ",
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          "text": "I want to be cremated when I die.",
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          "text": "“You didn’t bury Dad. You burned him.”\n“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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      "sense": "incinerate a body",
      "word": "tahu tūpāpaku"
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      "sense": "incinerate a body",
      "word": "kremere"
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    },
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "incinerate a body",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "incinerate a body",
      "word": "incinerar"
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      "sense": "incinerate a body",
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "incinerate a body",
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