CREMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cremate mean? 

• CREMATE (verb)
  The verb CREMATE has 1 sense:

1. reduce to ashes

  Familiarity information: CREMATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREMATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cremate    ... he / she / it cremates   
Past simple: cremated   
Past participle: cremated   
-ing form: cremating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduce to ashes

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Cremate a corpse

Hypernyms (to "cremate" is one way to...):

burn; burn down; fire (destroy by fire)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot cremate Sue

Derivation:

cremation (the incineration of a dead body)

 Context examples 

Potter made the new find on the site of a 2010 excavation, where the cremated remains of another young Ice-Age child were previously found.

(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)