Crossword-Solution: CREMATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cremate | v. t. | To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “CREMATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Turn to ashes | 1 answer |
| Reduce to ash | 1 answer |
| Prepare for inurnment | 1 answer |
| BURN body | 1 answer |
| Burn at the end? | 1 answer |
| Burn, as in the Hindu funeral rites of _antyeshti_ | 1 answer |
| Dispose of body in fire | 1 answer |
| Go into a dead heat? | 1 answer |
| Perform cinerary duties | 1 answer |
| CONSUME by fire | 2 answers |
| Ready for inurnment | 2 answers |
| Prepare for burial, in a way | 2 answers |
| Reduce to ashes | 3 answers |
| Incinerate | 9 answers |
| CINERARY CONTAINER | 10 answers |
| Cinerary vessel | 10 answers |
| Burn | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CREMATE (5)
Yet 'tain't being dead -- it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains; So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains." A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail; And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale.
There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven, With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given; It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: "You may tax your brawn and brains, But you promised true, and it's up to you to cremate those last remains." Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
Individually they grieve and mourn, bury,their dead (when they should cremate them), and pay the doctor and the undertaker.
That was just what it was--the ancient and sacred image, come from the heart of the East to the ends of Europe, and watching over its son whom they were going to cremate there.
These cremate their dead; they set apart a separate round house for the trophies of human heads, and in this the bachelors are expected to pass the nights.
Quotes with CREMATE (3)
Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it’s just so we don’t have to see the reality of death. You know, the Zoroastrians used to leave their dead in open places for the birds to eat. Now that’s a far more honest way to go, don’t you agree? Everyone can see what happens. It makes us live our lives more potently. That’s how I want to go, at my end: openly. Not ashamed of death, but embracing it.
When I die cremate me so I can finally fit into something small.
And do you know the story about Haydn’s head? They cut it away from the still-warm cadaver so some insane scientist could take apart the brain and pinpoint the location of musical genius. And the Einstein Story? He’d carefully written his will with instructions to cremate him. They followed his orders, but his disciple, ever loyal and devoted, refused to live without the master’s gaze on him. Before the cremation, he took the eyes of the cadaver and put them in a bottle of al…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1994–2022).