cremate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cremō (“I burn (something) to ashes; I cremate (something)”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹimeɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹɪˈmeɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kɹəˈmeɪt/

Verb

cremate (third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated)

1. (transitive) To burn something to ashes.
2. (transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

   I want to be cremated when I die.

Related terms

• cremation
• crematorium

Translations

burn to ashes

• Bulgarian: изпепелявам (bg) (izpepeljavam)
• Catalan: incinerar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焚毀 (zh) (fénhuǐ)

• Danish: brænde (da)
• Finnish: polttaa tuhkaksi
• French: incinérer (fr)
• German: einäschern (de)
• Hungarian: hamvaszt (hu), elhamvaszt (hu)
• Ido: kremacar (io)
• Latin: cremō
• Maori: whakapungarehu
• Portuguese: cremar (pt)
• Romanian: incinera (ro)
• Russian: сжига́ть (ru) impf (sžigátʹ), сжечь (ru) pf (sžečʹ), испепеля́ть (ru) impf (ispepeljátʹ), испепели́ть (ru) pf (ispepelítʹ)
• Spanish: incinerar (es)
• Swedish: bränna (sv)
• Thai: เผา (th) (pǎo)

incinerate a body

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: изгарям (bg) (izgarjam), кремирам (kremiram)
• Catalan: incinerar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焚化 (zh) (fénhuà)

• Danish: kremere (da)
• Esperanto: kremacii
• Finnish: krematoida (fi), polttohaudata (fi)
• French: incinérer (fr), crématiser (fr)
• German: kremieren (de)
• Hebrew: שרף גווייה‎ (saráf gviyá)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: elhamvaszt (hu)
• Ido: kremacar (io)
• Irish: créam
• Italian: cremare (it), incinerare (it)
• Japanese: 火葬する (ja) (かそうする, kasō-suru)
• Khmer: បូជា (km) (bouciə), បូជាសព (bouciə sɑp)
• Maori: tahu tūpāpaku, whakapungarehu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kremere (no)

  Nynorsk: kremere (no), kremera

• Polish: kremować impf, skremować pf
• Portuguese: cremar (pt)
• Romanian: incinera (ro)
• Russian: креми́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kremírovatʹ)
• Spanish: incinerar (es)
• Swedish: kremera (sv)
• Thai: ฌาปนกิจ (th) (chaa-bpà-ná-gìt), เผา (th) (pǎo)
• Turkish: yakmak (tr)
• Vietnamese: hoả táng (vi)

Anagrams

• McAteer, ceramet, meercat

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Italian

Verb

cremate

1. inflection of cremare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• camerte, certame

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Latin

Verb

cremāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cremō