cremate
verb (used with object)
to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
had cremated
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past perfectof cremate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Two bereaved families feared they had "cremated the wrong person" due to errors in the post-mortem reports of a serially discredited pathologist.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2021
He said workers had cremated and buried more than 1,200 people on Sunday alone, including 1,065 who had died at home of COVID-19 and 169 who had died in hospitals.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
Next door, however, the heat had cremated an exhibition of other prized meteorites.
From Nature ● Jul. 15, 2019
“If they had cremated her there would be no parts to take to Detroit,” Butsch said.
From Fox News ● Apr. 30, 2019
It burned like red-hot coals, for he was unused to it, but he would have drunk it down if it had cremated him.
From The Spoilers of the Valley by Robert Watson
