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CREMATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

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)

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