incinerate

verb
/ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/UK/ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt//ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/UK

Etymology

From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).

  1. borrowed from incinerātus

Definitions

  1. To destroy by burning.

    • His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.
    • A cloud of smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine seized by the FBI and incinerated inside a Montana animal shelter sent its workers to the hospital, city officials in Billings said.
  2. To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).

  3. Reduced to ashes by burning

    Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.

    • FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA