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- in Indo-European roots.]

cre·ma′tion (krĭ-mā′shən) n.

cre′ma′tor n.

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Noun

cremation - the incineration of a dead body

incineration - the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes

Translations

إحْراق جُثَّة ميـتـه

kremacezpopelnění

brændingkremering

Einäscherung

αποτέφρωση

crémation incinération

líkbrennsla

cremazione

kremasjon kremering likbrenning

kremácia

ölüyü yakma

火葬

cremation

[krɪˈmeɪʃən] N → cremación f, incineración f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cremation

[krɪˈmeɪʃ^ən] n → incinération f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cremation

n → Einäscherung f, → Kremation f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cremation

[krɪˈmeɪʃ/ən] n → cremazione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cremate

(kriˈmeit) , (ˈkriːmeit) verb

to burn dead (human) bodies. He asked to be cremated, not buried.

creˈmation noun

crematorium (kreməˈtoːriəm) noun

a place where cremation is carried out.

cremation

n. incineración.

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He has reduced the body to ashes by his own system of cremation, with the exception of the head--'

The Countess may recoil from handling the acids and watching the process of cremation; but she can surely sprinkle a little disinfecting powder--'

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after cremation. (2) This fragment comes from a version of the "Contest of Homer and Hesiod" widely different from that now extant.

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With a stride he was at the table and with a sweep of his hand sent the lamp crashing into the fat belly of the general who, in his mad effort to escape cremation, fell over backward, chair and all, upon the floor.

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In the meantime the cremation rituals should only take place at a medical waste disposal facility in Awali.

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Last year, Radiant Heart invested more than $100,000 in equipment to perform water cremation of deceased pets.

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Simplicity Cremations has launched the new service which will provide people with all the practical and essential elements of a cremation, without the obligation to pay for traditional ceremonial elements they might not want.

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