Word Meanings - CREMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CREMATE)

• Burn
• Ignite
• kindle
• brand
• consume
• cauterize
• rage
• glow
• smoulder
• blaze
• flash
• cremate
• incinerate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CREMATE)

• Distinguish
• honor
• decorate

Related words: (words related to CREMATE)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• IGNITE
  To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum. (more info) 1. To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
• BRANDER
  1. One who, or that which, brands; a branding iron. 2. A gridiron.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• BRANDLE
  To shake; to totter.
• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
• CAUTERIZE
  1. To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison. 2. To sear, as the conscience. Jer. Taylor.
• DISTINGUISH
  di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
• HONORARY
  1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay. 2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison. 3. Holding a title or place without rendering
• BRANDYWINE
  Brandy. Wiseman.
• BLAZER
  One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser.
• DISTINGUISHABLE
  1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
• DISTINGUISHMENT
  Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
• FLASH
  1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary
• BRAND-NEW
  Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.
• DISTINGUISHABLY
  So as to be distinguished.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• PEPPERBRAND
  See BUNT
• INDISTINGUISHING
  Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
• SMOLDERINGNESS; SMOULDERINGNESS
  The state of smoldering.
• FIREBRAND
  1. A piece of burning wood. L'Estrange. 2. One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.
• EMBLAZE
  Etym: 1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope. 2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. The imperial ensign, . . . streaming
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;