Definitions for cremate

cremate cre·mate

Spelling: [kree-meyt]
IPA: /ˈkri meɪt/

Cremate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in cremate (aceemrt).

Definitions for cremate

verb (used with object)

  1. to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
  2. to consume by fire; burn.

Origin of cremate

1870-75; Latin cremātus past participle of cremāre to burn to ashes; see -ate1

Examples for cremate

An undertaker telegraphed to a man that his mother-in-law had died and asked whether he should bury, embalm or cremate her.

They had to cremate the bull for fear the disease would spread.

But later "waves" of the fighting charioteers did not cremate their dead.

cremate the cadaver together with the board upon which it is fixed.

It began in 1973 for 8-year-old Huang, when his grandmother made her family promise to not cremate her.

cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat.

To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use.

The Muhammadans desired to bury it and the Hindus to cremate it.

If you cremate a human body and study the ashes chemically, you find a score or more of mineral salts.

In some cases these fires were fierce and long continued, as if the object had been to cremate the body.

Word Value for cremate
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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