cremate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: cre=mate

CIDE DICTIONARY

cremate, v. t. [L. crematus, p. p. of cremare to burn; cf. Skr. cr to cook.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cremate, v.tr. consume (a corpse etc.) by fire.

Derivative

cremation n. cremator n.

Etymology

L cremare burn