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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Matthew O’Brien told jurors that surveillance images, cellphone location records and fire science would establish that Rinderknecht intentionally ignited brush on a Pacific Palisades hillside in the first minutes of New Year’s Day 2025.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Bass was out of the country when the Palisades Fire ignited and caught the fire department unprepared despite days of warnings about the potential for powerful winds and bone-dry weather.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of ignited

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Robinson’s second sack came early in the third quarter and the Dolphins didn’t get another as Maye torched the secondary.

— Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
And then there are dishes that bring a little theater to the table, like the creamy rice pudding which gets torched before serving.

— Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of torched

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However, the original system has limitations when objects are partially visible, distant, or captured in blurry or poorly lit images.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
Out of safety concerns — given that the arrays generate electricity whenever lit by the sun — the astronauts needed to wait for the space station to enter the shadow of Earth to see what could be done.

— Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2026

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