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CREMATOR

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cre⋅ma⋅tor

[kree-mey-ter]
–noun
1. a person who cremates.
2. a furnace for cremating dead bodies.
3. an incinerator, as for garbage.

Origin:
1875–80; < LL, equiv. to L cremā(re) to cremate + -tor -tor
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cre·mate   (krē'māt', krĭ-māt')   
tr.v.   cre·mat·ed, cre·mat·ing, cre·mates
To incinerate (a corpse).

[Latin cremāre, cremāt-; see ker-3 in Indo-European roots.]
cre·ma'tion (krĭ-mā'shən) n., cre'ma'tor n.
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