cremate

Verb

Verb Forms: cremated, cremating, cremates

To burn a dead body to ashes.
reduce to ashes
- "Cremate a corpse"
To burn something to ashes.
To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).

Examples

I want to be cremated when I die.
My opponent’s hopes seemed to CREMATE after my triple-word score play.

Origin / Etymology

First attested in 1889; borrowed from Latin cremātus, perfect passive participle of cremō (“to burn to ashes; to cremate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Scrabble Score: 11

cremate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cremate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cremate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

cremate: valid Words With Friends Word