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Thesaurus: cremate

To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

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  1. v. t. To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
  2. v. reduce to ashes
  3. To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
  4. To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, eitherdirectly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, tocremate a corpse, instead of burying it.