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To cremate someone is to burn their dead body as part of a funeral, until only ashes are left. It is the ordinary respectful verb for that choice, set against burial, which means placing the body in the ground. The family decides; workers at a crematorium carry it out. You will hear the word in news, in official papers, and in careful talk about funerals — never as a joke. Though actually, English only took this Latin verb in the late nineteenth century, when modern was being argued about in public; the practice is older than this English word. In Taiwan today, is a very common choice.
火化（把遺體燒掉）
組成Borrowed from Latin cremātus, from cremō, “to burn to ashes,” plus the English verb ending -ate. First attested in English in 1889.
同家族的字
- cremationthe noun for the act
- crematoriumthe building where the burning is done
- cremainscremated + remains: what is left afterwards
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cremateverb/ˈkɹimeɪt/
- 1
To burn something to ashes.
- 2
To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
- I want to be cremated when I die.
- “You didn’t bury Dad. You burned him.” “We cremated him, Benny. For humans, the word is cremated. And we chose to do that because that’s what they do in Japan.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。