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1. (v.t.) cremate
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, esp. as a funeral rite.
Etymology: (1870–75; < L cremātus, ptp. of cremāre to burn to ashes)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) cremate
reduce to ashes
"Cremate a corpse"
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1. (verb) cremate
to burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it
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Sense: to burn dead (human) bodies
He asked to be cremated, not buried.
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 Afrikaans: veras, verbrand, kremeer |
 Arabic: يَحْرِق جُثّـة ميِّتـه |
 Bulgarian: кремирам |
 Brazilian: cremar |
 Czech: zpopelnit |
 German: einäschern |
 Danish: kremere; brænde |
 Greek: αποτεφρώνω |
 Spanish: incinerar |
 Estonian: tuhastama |
 Farsi: سوزاندن جسد انسان |
 Finnish: polttaa ruumis |
 French: incinérer |
 Hebrew: לִשרוֹף גוּפוֹת |
 Hindi: शव जलाना |
 Croatian: kremirati |
 Hungarian: (el)hamvaszt |
 Indonesian: membakar, mengabukan |
 Icelandic: brenna |
 Italian: cremare |
 Japanese: 火葬にする |
 Korean: 화장하다 |
 Lithuanian: kremuoti |
 Latvian: kremēt |
 Malay: dikebumikan |
 Dutch: cremeren |
 Norwegian: kremere |
 Polish: kremować |
 Persian: سوزاندن جسد انسان |
 Pashto: د انسان د جسد سوزول |
 Portuguese: cremar |
 Romanian: a incinera |
 Russian: кремировать |
 Slovak: spopolniť |
 Slovenian: upepeliti |
 Serbian: kremirati |
 Swedish: kremera |
 Thai: เผาศพ |
 Turkish: yakmak |
 Taiwanese: 焚化 |
 Ukrainian: спалювати тіло померлого |
 Urdu: لاش جلانا |
 Vietnamese: hỏa thiêu |
 Chinese: 焚化 |
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