cremator

[kree-mey-ter]

noun

1. a person who cremates.

2. a furnace for cremating dead bodies.

3. an incinerator, as for garbage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cremator¹

1875–80; < Late Latin, equivalent to Latin cremā ( re ) to cremate + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

There were a couple of really strong female performances — “An Unmarried Woman,” “Woman Under the Influence” — but also things like “The Cremator,” which was stirring for the moment we’re in, just the banality of evil.

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Punk rockers, a cremator and medical-supply workers have a problem with zombies in Kentucky.

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The film’s leading man went briefly into hiding, but “The Cremator” was completed the following year and, inevitably, banned.

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“The Cremator,” adapted from a novel by Ladislav Fuks, is a disquieting mix of satire and horror, filled with inexplicable characters seen in fragmentary close-ups or through distorted lenses.

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Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1973 as part of the “New Directors/New Films” series, “The Cremator” is getting a belated theatrical run in a new digital restoration at Metrograph, as part of retrospective devoted to its director, Juraj Herz.

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