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# cremate

«cremate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To burn the body of a person who has died, until only…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (cremate, cremates, cremated, cremating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To burn the body of a person who has died, until only ashes are left, as a way of saying goodbye instead of burying them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#m1)

2) (informal, joking) To burn food very badly: «You've cremated the toast!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In adult life, when someone dies their family may choose for the body to be cremated at a crematorium, then keep or scatter the ashes. Many Hindus and many Christians choose cremation; some faiths prefer burial. Phrases: «be cremated», «cremated remains», «scatter the ashes».

### examples

- Grandpa was cremated, and we scattered his ashes by the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#x1)
- Some families choose to bury, and some to cremate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#x2)
- Hindus usually cremate their dead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#x3)
- Her ashes are in a small box after she was cremated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#x4)
- Dad cremated the sausages on the barbecue! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#x5)
- The funeral was followed by a short service at the crematorium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: cremation; the place is a crematorium. Usually passive: «He was cremated.» A sensitive word: be gentle when using it about real people.

### In the corpora

- [They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/1/)
- [At a Hindu funeral the body is usually cremated; traditionally the eldest son leads the rites, though today daughters sometimes do too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/65-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cremate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cremate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.