Sami was allowed to cremate his wife.
Source: tatoeba (6709436)
Cremate
//ˈkɹimeɪt//
Synonyms for "cremate" (14 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (4)
Verb(4 words)
Related words (7)
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3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
6 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 31 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- изгарям verb (incinerate a body)
- изпепелявам verb (burn to ashes)
- кремирам verb (incinerate a body)
Catalan
2 entries- incinerar verb (burn to ashes)
- incinerar verb (incinerate a body)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 焚化 verb (incinerate a body)
- 焚毀 /焚毁 verb (burn to ashes)
Danish
2 entries- brænde verb (burn to ashes)
- kremere verb (incinerate a body)
Dutch
2 entries- cremeren verb (incinerate a body)
- verassen verb (burn to ashes)
Esperanto
1 entries- kremacii verb (incinerate a body)
Finnish
3 entries- krematoida verb (incinerate a body)
- polttaa tuhkaksi verb (burn to ashes)
- polttohaudata verb (incinerate a body)
French
3 entries- crématiser verb (incinerate a body)
- incinérer verb (burn to ashes)
- incinérer verb (incinerate a body)
German
2 entries- einäschern verb (burn to ashes)
- kremieren verb (incinerate a body)
Hebrew
1 entries- שרף גווייה verb (incinerate a body)
Hindi
2 entries- अग्निदाह verb (incinerate a body)
- दाह verb (burn to ashes)
Hungarian
3 entries- elhamvaszt verb (burn to ashes)
- elhamvaszt verb (incinerate a body)
- hamvaszt verb (burn to ashes)
Ido
2 entries- kremacar verb (burn to ashes)
- kremacar verb (incinerate a body)
Irish
1 entries- créam verb (incinerate a body)
Italian
2 entries- cremare verb (incinerate a body)
- incinerare verb (incinerate a body)
Japanese
1 entries- 火葬する verb (incinerate a body)
Khmer
2 entries- បូជា verb (incinerate a body)
- បូជាសព verb (incinerate a body)
Latin
1 entries- cremō verb (burn to ashes)
Māori
3 entries- tahu tūpāpaku verb (incinerate a body)
- whakapungarehu verb (burn to ashes)
- whakapungarehu verb (incinerate a body)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kremere verb (incinerate a body)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kremera verb (incinerate a body)
- kremere verb (incinerate a body)
Polish
2 entries- kremować verb (incinerate a body)
- skremować verb (incinerate a body)
Portuguese
2 entries- cremar verb (burn to ashes)
- cremar verb (incinerate a body)
Romanian
2 entries- incinera verb (burn to ashes)
- incinera verb (incinerate a body)
Russian
4 entries- испепели́ть verb (burn to ashes)
- испепеля́ть verb (burn to ashes)
- креми́ровать verb (incinerate a body)
- сжечь verb (burn to ashes)
Spanish
2 entries- incinerar verb (burn to ashes)
- incinerar verb (incinerate a body)
Swedish
2 entries- bränna verb (burn to ashes)
- kremera verb (incinerate a body)
Thai
3 entries- ฌาปนกิจ verb (incinerate a body)
- เผา verb (burn to ashes)
- เผา verb (incinerate a body)
Turkish
1 entries- yakmak verb (incinerate a body)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hoả táng verb (incinerate a body)
Welsh
1 entries- amlosgi verb (incinerate a body)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
I want to be cremated when I die.
Source: wiktionary
“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.”
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.