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Cremate

//ˈkɹimeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To burn something to ashes. transitive
  2. 2
    reduce to ashes wordnet
  3. 3
    To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial). transitive

    "I want to be cremated when I die."

Etymology

First attested in 1889; borrowed from Latin cremātus, perfect passive participle of cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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