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CREMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cremate mean? 

CREMATE (verb)
  The verb CREMATE has 1 sense:

1. reduce to ashesplay

  Familiarity information: CREMATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CREMATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they cremate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it cremates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: cremated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: cremated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: cremating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduce to ashes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Cremate a corpse

Hypernyms (to "cremate" is one way to...):

burn; burn down; fire (destroy by fire)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot cremate Sue

Derivation:

cremation (the incineration of a dead body)


 Context examples 


Potter made the new find on the site of a 2010 excavation, where the cremated remains of another young Ice-Age child were previously found.

(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)



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