cremator
Americannoun
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a person who cremates.
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a furnace for cremating dead bodies.
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an incinerator, as for garbage.
Etymology
Origin of cremator
1875–80; < Late Latin, equivalent to Latin cremā ( re ) to cremate + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times
Punk rockers, a cremator and medical-supply workers have a problem with zombies in Kentucky.
From Los Angeles Times
The film’s leading man went briefly into hiding, but “The Cremator” was completed the following year and, inevitably, banned.
From New York Times
“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.
From New York Times
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.
From New York Times
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