cremate

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Wealthy people who want to respect their loved ones by burying the bodies will buy corpses of murder victims to cremate, replacing their relatives 'bodies, a police spokesman told the South China Morning Post.

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  1. transitive verb To incinerate (a corpse).

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  • Wealthy people who want to respect their loved ones by burying the bodies will buy corpses of murder victims to cremate, replacing their relatives 'bodies, a police spokesman told the South China Morning Post. —  FOXNews.com
  • OK, I know they get cremated but how do they move such a large body? is there anywhere big enough to cremate a large animal? —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • A couple who admitted killing their two-year-old son and were accused of trying to cremate his body on a barbecue began long jail sentences today. —  Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
  • It is sometimes tough to decide whether to bury or cremate a loved one, but in a tough economy a growing number of people are choosing to cremate their loved ones to save money, experts said.
  • He said it's especially true with Catholics, who once found it shameful to cremate a loved one.
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  1. Latin cremāre, cremāt-; see ker-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin crematus, past participle of cremare, burn, used particularly of burning the dead; perhaps akin to carbo, coal (see carbon), Sanskrit √ çrī, roast, boil.
 

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