CREMATED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

cremated

verb

past tense of cremate

as in incinerated

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Crystal’s house at 860 Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades was incinerated in the wildfire of early January 2025.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
The Food and Drug Administration recommends disposing of drugs by dropping them off at a take-back location or by mailing them using a prepaid envelope that is delivered to a facility where the drugs are incinerated.

— Sunny Linnebur, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of incinerated

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Goodwin, its president, credits a pandemic-era mistrust of public education, when debates ignited over school closures, books, race, sexuality and gender identity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
In June 2024, two major fires ignited, and monsoon rains soon followed.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of ignited

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Shattered glass littered sidewalks after rioters smashed and looted thousands of shops, torched cars and buildings, and attacked police, who fired tear gas and water cannons.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 2026
White militias destroyed their homes, torched their food supplies, and slaughtered them outright so routinely that a secondary economy of kidnappers sprang up to sell the survivors, children and adults alike, into servitude.

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of torched

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Try not to squeal like a 5-year-old when the foot-tall sparkler speared into the sundae is lit.

— Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
The first practical transformer was switched on about 15 miles down the road, in 1886, when William Stanley lit stores and offices lining Great Barrington’s Main Street.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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