Cremate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cremate \Cre"mate\ (kr?"m?t or kr?-m?t"), v. t. [L. crematus, p.
     p. of cremare to burn; cf. Skr. cr? to cook.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cremate
       v : reduce to ashes; "Cremate a corpse"