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How to pronounce cremate in English?

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Type Words
Type of burn, burn down, fire
Derivation cremation

Examples of cremate

cremate
The authorities would not allow Dalip Singh to cremate his mother in the Punjab.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Some 85 per cent of the country's 1-billion-plus population cremate their dead.
From the newscientist.com
The business can cremate your pet or provide a burial service at an owner's home.
From the newsobserver.com
The council passed a zoning change to allow six downtown funeral homes to cremate.
From the sltrib.com
Children also can be covered if their parents cannot afford to bury or cremate them.
From the chron.com
Why do we bury them six feet under, or cremate them and release their ashes?
From the huffingtonpost.com
Unlike most Hindus who cremate the dead, the Lingayat sect buries its dead.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In exchange for the payment, the families must cremate the victims as soon as possible.
From the theepochtimes.com
For centuries, Hindus have been coming to Varanasi to cremate their dead.
From the bbc.co.uk
More examples
  • Reduce to ashes; "Cremate a corpse"
  • (cremation) the incineration of a dead body
  • Cremation is the process of reducing dead bodies to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments. This is accomplished through high temperatures and vaporization.
  • To burn something to ashes; to incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial)
  • (cremation) A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead
  • (Cremation) exposing human remains and the container holding them to extreme heat and flame and processing the resulting bone fragments to a uniform size and consistency.
  • (CREMATION) A process which reduces the body by heat to small bone fragments. When the fragments are pulverized, they are reduced to the consistency of coarse sand or crushed seashells.
  • (Cremation) is a heating process which incinerates human remains into ashes.
  • (cremation) to reduce a body to ashes (cremains) by heat.