CREMATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they cremate ... he / she / it cremates

Past simple: cremated

Past participle: cremated

-ing form: cremating

Meaning:

Reduce to ashes

Example:

Cremate a corpse

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "cremate" is one way to...):

burn; burn down; fire (destroy by fire)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot cremate Sue

Derivation:

cremation (the incineration of a dead body)