0 present participle of cremate
1 to burn a dead person's body, usually as part of a funeral ceremony
Landlord orders that nobody should touch the dead body and no one should help in cremating him.
During times of persecution, pagan authorities erroneously thought they could destroy the martyrs' hope of resurrection by cremating their remains.
He intends to cover up the crash by cremating the poacher's dead body.
Cremating victims is the preferred way of handling body disposal.
Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is not just cremating the dead, but liberating the souls of the departed.
The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields.
His wife becomes a nun after cremating his head and body.
One of the problems was that private sector undertakers were not burying or cremating people as quickly as they should have been, so the numbers built up.
