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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cremate/krəˈmeɪt/

▶verb dispose of (a dead person's body) by burning it to ashes.

– derivatives
cremation noun,
cremator noun.

– origin C19 (earlier (C17) as cremation): from L. cremare ‘burn’.

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