To dispose of a dead body by burning it at high temperature.
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Words that belong together
- cremate the remains
- arrange to cremate a body
- request to be cremated
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Her instructions asked the family to cremate her remains rather than bury them.
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Word forms
- Base
- cremate
- Past tense
- cremated
- Past participle
- cremated
- Present participle
- cremating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- cremate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are cremating
- Present perfect
- have/has cremated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been cremating
- Past
- cremated
- Past continuous
- was/were cremating
- Past perfect
- had cremated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been cremating
- Future
- will cremate
- Future continuous
- will be cremating
- Future perfect
- will have cremated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been cremating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror / gothic literary. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: cremate; cremates; cremated; cremated; cremating Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Transitive subject to cremation; medical section specifies treatment of a dead body by intense heat, with bone fragments pulverized; Cambridge states burn a dead body. Individual writer usefulness checked for a distinct physical, ritual, facial or acoustic function. Definitions/examples are original; genre suitability is not an inherent emotional rating. Writing functions: precise physical or ritual description, gothic scene construction. Third-person singular: cremates.
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