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cremate

/kɹɪˈmeɪt/US/ˈkɹimeɪt/

cremate verb: to burn something to ashes.

Verb

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

cremate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

cremate in Hindi

burn to ashes
दाह dāh
incinerate a body
अग्निदाह agnidāh

cremate in Tamil

எரியூட்டு, எரி, பிணம் சுடு

cremate in Urdu

خاک کرنا, مردہ جلانا

cremate in Bengali

দাহ করা, পোড়ানো
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cremate in Malayalam
ദഹിപ്പിക്കുക, ഭസ്മമാക്കുക, ശവദാഹം ചെയ്യുക
cremate in Kannada
ದಹಿಸು dahisu
cremate in Thai
เผา pǎo, ฌาปนกิจ chaa-bpà-ná-gìt
cremate in Vietnamese
hoả táng

Synonyms of cremate

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All synonyms of cremate

Forms of cremate

third-person singular presentcremates
present participlecremating
past participlecremated
pastcremated

Past tense of cremate: cremated

Origin of 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).

Words formed from cremate

Questions about cremate

What does cremate mean?
Cremate means to burn something to ashes.
What is cremate in Hindi?
Cremate in Hindi is दाह (dāh), अग्निदाह (agnidāh). See Cremate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cremate?
Cremate is a verb.
How do you pronounce cremate?
Cremate is pronounced /ˈkɹimeɪt/ (US).
What is the past tense of cremate?
The past tense of cremate is cremated.

Words near cremate in the dictionary

  1. cremas
  2. cremaster
  3. cremasterial
  4. cremasteric
  5. cremasters
  6. cremate
  7. cremated
  8. cremates
  9. cremating
  10. cremation
  11. cremation oven

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cremate (page history and authors); cremate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cremate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cremate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cremate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ದಹಿಸು (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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