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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cremate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even when remains are cremated, the ashes are often placed in an urn and buried.
▪ Here, the dead were cremated to enable their souls to ascend to the light.
▪ I've since bought a proper gold band to replace the make-do ring, but Peter was cremated in his.
▪ My dad had recently been cremated.
▪ On the orders of Abakumov the body was cremated without a post-mortem.
▪ The dead have ritually been interred in pyramids, cremated on burning pyres, and sunk beneath the oceans' waves.
▪ Then their bodies were cremated at night to conceal the evidence.
▪ Told me if he died, have him cremated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cremate

Cremate \Cre"mate\ (kr?"m?t or kr?-m?t"), v. t. [L. crematus, p. p. of cremare to burn; cf. Skr. cr? to cook.] 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cremate

1874, a back-formation from cremation. Related: Cremated; cremating.

Wiktionary
cremate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To burn something to ashes. 2 (context transitive English) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

WordNet
cremate

v. reduce to ashes; "Cremate a corpse"

Usage examples of "cremate".

Take the cremationist Sir Henry Thompson, who sat down and calculated the value in pounds sterling of the 80,000-odd people who died each year in London, should their cremated remains be used as fertilizer.

Nor to cremate the head and body, then casually send the ashes to Rome with a short, semiliterate note of explanation!

He sailed fleets of gold-crested vessels laden with cinnamon, cumin, hashish and nutmeg, and fought holy wars for the reliquaries of gods, and issued stern unpopular edicts, and cremated his chancellor for dropping tangerine peel on the steps of the royal harem, which was unfortunate for the innocent chancellor, who was allergic to tangerines and still alive to protest his innocence when the execution pyre was lit.

Your father had made out a new will about eight months ago, specifying that he wanted to be cremated immediately.

Her interment was to be private, and since she had been cremated, the media and the general public assumed that her ashes would be scat­tered.

It turns out that Reverend Yu's body was cremated and his ashes scattered.

She found out that the body had been cremated, and the ashes disposed of.

Ever the romantic, Dad had wanted to be cremated with his favorite photograph of my mother, and he had charged me with making sure that it was sent with him to the mortuary.

Evidently this was the hitchhiker who would be cremated in my father's name.

Although Aimes was cremated, Bobby and I saw nothing of the process, because Frank Kirk or his assistant remembered to close the slats on the Levolor blind.

It was the snapshot of my mother that I had promised would be cremated with my father's body.

According to Trudy (and they had a typed statement given by her a month after the funeral), Patrick had suddenly decided he wanted to be cremated with his ashes buried in Locust Grove, the loveliest cemetery in the county.

The new will, the life insurance, the cremated corpse-we started getting suspicious.

You have no clue who got cremated, and I'm not telling until we cut the deal.

The parents picked up her body yesterday afternoon, took it to the mortuary and the funeral director cremated it last night.