cremate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”).

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.”

Derived terms

Translations

incinerate a body

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

cremate

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

Anagrams

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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