incinerate
verb/ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/UK/ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt//ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/UK
Etymology
From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).
- borrowed from incinerātus
Definitions
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.
To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).
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
- synonymburn
- synonymburn away
- synonymburn down
- synonymburn up
- synonymburn to a crisp
- synonymchar up
- synonymcinder
- synonymcremate
- synonymforburn
- synonymforsweal
- synonymincinerate
- synonymscathe
- antonymextinguish
- antonymsalvage
- antonymsave
- neighborend in smoke
- neighborgo up in flames
- neighborgo up in smoke
- neighborcombust
- neighborkindle
- neighbordestroy
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for incinerate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA