The AI-powered English dictionary
third-person singular simple present cremates, present participle cremating, simple past and past participle cremated
(transitive) To burn something to ashes. examples
(transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial). quotations examples
“You didn’t bury Dad. You burned him.”“We cremated him, Benny. For humans, the word is cremated. And we chose to do that because that’s what they do in Japan.”
2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 422