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Cremate   Listen
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Cremate  v. t.  To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cremate" Quotes from Famous Books



... so anxious to get rid of his sister-in-law that he reminds me of the man whose mother-in-law died," said Miss Russell. "He was too far from home to return to the usual funeral, and they telegraphed him the sad news and asked if they should embalm, cremate, or bury the remains. He wired back: ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins

... tell what they'll do. But the main line of railroad is where they are mostly moving, because in that way they can get their supplies of men, guns, ammunition and food, and also take back the wounded. Some of their dead are buried, but in the main they prefer to cremate them, which is the modern way to prevent ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson

... parentage in this instance. Fenley, a groom and horse coper on the one hand, and the dark daughter of a Calcutta merchant on the other. If the progeny of such a union escaped a hereditary taint it would be a miracle. Cremate Hilton Fenley and his very ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy



Words linked to "Cremate" :   fire, burn, burn down



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