Cremate

Word CREMATE
Character 7
Hyphenation cre mate
Pronunciations /kɹəˈmeɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Cremate"

What do we mean by cremate?

To incinerate (a corpse). transitive verb

To burn up or destroy by heat; specifically, to consume (a dead body) by intense heat, as a substitute for burial.

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate. transitive verb

To burn something to ashes verb

To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial) verb

Reduce to ashes verb

To burn something to ashes.

To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Cremate

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The word "cremate" in example sentences

We were asked to believe that when he tried to "cremate" his clone by dumping the dead body down a smokestack back in the mid-70s, he somehow totally failed to notice that the clone was just unconscious instead of dead. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Japan's Kyodo news agency says crematoriums in Miyagi province are running out of fuel to cremate bodies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We only have one crematorium in town, Katsuhiko Abe, an official in Soma, told AP.Most people in Japan choose to cremate their dead, which requires permission from local authorities. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The site will be excavated to accommodate around 1,000 bodies in total due to the lack of facilities and fuel to cremate bodies in the city. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Coho -- I've often joked with my wife that when I'm gone she should cremate me and put my ashes in a couple of offshore trolling lures ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

“I want you to cremate me and scatter my ashes anywhere but here.” ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)

I just watched an episode of THE HUNT FOR BIG FISH, and Larry Dahlberg said that he has instructed to cremate him when he dies and to mix his ashes with other materials into fishing lures of his design. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have warned him that if he doesn't decide soon, I'll cremate him. ❋ Kathleen A. Hughes (2011)

And I stand by my original statement: Harvest my organs, cremate me, and then shoot the cremains out of a cannon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The burials in the grave—two trenches nearly 300 feet long apiece—are expected to be temporary, with plans to cremate the dead within two years. ❋ Daisuke Wakabayashi (2011)

My sister and I decided that we are going to cremate her. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

Though I will bet the bloody Labour Party has prohibited that on health and safety grounds, and that they won't be able to cremate the body because crematoria aren't allowed to smoke any more. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The government is acting like a mafia, telling relatives, 'We'll give you extra compensation if you cremate now, and stay quiet,'" Li says. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After deliberations involving Stalin and the head of the secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, who had organised the funeral, it had been decided to embalm Lenin rather than bury or cremate the body. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They will cremate it and return the ashes to me in about 3 weeks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The remains of the soldier had been returned to the family, and they expressed a wish that the military cremate any other remains that were subsequently identified. ❋ Julian E. Barnes (2011)

Then, seeming to choke up a couple of times, Rudd told the crowd about how after his father died of cancer, the family decided the only logical thing to do was cremate him and spread portions of his ashes at different beloved spots in Ireland. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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