incinerate

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

• (verb, UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/

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• (adjective, UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɪnəɹət/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/, /ɪnˈsɪnjɚeɪt/

incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)

1. (transitive) To destroy by burning.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] , page 1:

     His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

incinerate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “7. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

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

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incinerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incinerō