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cre⋅mate

   [kree-meyt]
–verb (used with object), -mat⋅ed, -mat⋅ing.
1. to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, esp. as a funeral rite.
2. to consume by fire; burn.
Origin:
1870–75; < L cremātus ptp. of cremāre to burn to ashes; see -ate 1
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cre·mate     (krē'māt', krĭ-māt')  Pronunciation Key 
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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cremation 
1623, from L. cremationem (nom. crematio), from cremare "to burn," from PIE *krem-, extended form of base *ker- "heat, fire" (see carbon). Cremate is an 1874 back-formation.

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cremation

noun
the incineration of a dead body 

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Cremation

Cre*ma"tion\ (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.] A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T. Browne.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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