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cremating

cremating is the present participle and gerund of cremate.

Meaning of cremate

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.

Questions about cremating

What is cremating the present participle and gerund of?
Cremating is the present participle and gerund of cremate.

Words near cremating in the dictionary

  1. cremasteric
  2. cremasters
  3. cremate
  4. cremated
  5. cremates
  6. cremating
  7. cremation
  8. cremation oven
  9. cremation ovens
  10. cremationism
  11. cremationist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cremating (page history and authors); cremate (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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