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incinerate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/ (US)
  • /ɪnˈsɪnjɚeɪt/ (US)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
    • FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

incinerate en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/ (UK)
  • /ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/ (US)
  • /ɪnˈsɪnjɚeɪt/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To destroy by burning.
    • 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. 2025 September 12, “Meth burn by FBI smokes out Montana animal shelter”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2025:
    • His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes. 1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1:
  2. (informal) To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
incinerates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
incinerated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
incinerated Tense=Past lexicographic
incinerating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

save · extinguish · salvage

Deriveds

incineration · microincinerate · incinerator · incinerable

Hypernyms

destroy

Relateds

go up in smoke · go up in flames · kindle · end in smoke · catch fire

Synonyms

burn · char up · cinder · burn · forsweal · combust · forsweal · forburn · scathe · cremate · incinerate · burn down · burn up · burn away · burn to a crisp · combure · torch

Translations (39)

cmn 焚化 (destroy by burning) · de niederbrennen (destroy by burning) · mi tūmata (destroy by burning) · pl spalać (destroy by burning) · fr incinérer (destroy by burning) · ms menunu (destroy by burning) · yi פֿאַרברענען (destroy by burning) · cmn 燃燒 /燃烧 (destroy by burning) · hu eléget (destroy by burning) · vi thiêu (destroy by burning) · ja 焼却する (destroy by burning) · ko 소각(燒却)하다 (destroy by burning) · es incinerar (destroy by burning) · el αποτεφρώνω (destroy by burning) · bg изпепелявам (destroy by burning) · pt incinerar (destroy by burning) · sv förbränna (destroy by burning) · pl spopielać (destroy by burning) · fi polttaa (destroy by burning) · ru сжига́ть (destroy by burning) · ca incinerar (destroy by burning) · de verbrennen (destroy by burning) · ru испепеля́ть (destroy by burning) · ko 태우다 (destroy by burning) · pl spalić (destroy by burning) · sl sežgati (destroy by burning) · grc ἀποτεφρόω (destroy by burning) · fi tuhkata (destroy by burning) · ru сжечь (destroy by burning) · tr yakmak (destroy by burning) · sl sežigati (destroy by burning) · bg изгарям (destroy by burning) · ru креми́ровать (destroy by burning) · uk згоряти (destroy by burning) · nl verbranden (destroy by burning) · pl spopielić (destroy by burning) · ru испепели́ть (destroy by burning) · ja 燃やす (destroy by burning) · bg кремирам (destroy by burning)