cremate

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹimeɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹɪˈmeɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈmeɪt/

cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)

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

   I want to be cremated when I die.

   • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 422:

     “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.”

• cremation
• crematorium

• McAteer, ceramet, meercat

cremate

1. inflection of cremare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• camerte, certame

cremāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cremō

cremate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of cremar combined with te