Definitions for cremates

cremates cre·mate

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

Cremates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 443 anagrams from letters in cremates (aceemrst).

Definitions for cremates

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 cremates

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

Examples for cremates

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Word Value for cremates
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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