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Cremate

Cremate Meaning & Definition
Cremate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cremate?

[v] reduce to ashes; "Cremate a corpse"

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See Also | burn | burn down | fire

Cremate In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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