Incinerate

//ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt// adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To destroy by burning. transitive

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

  2. 2
    cause to undergo combustion wordnet
  3. 3
    To annihilate (not necessarily by burning). informal
  4. 4
    become reduced to ashes wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed. not-comparable, obsolete

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

Synonyms

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burnburnforswealblow to piecesblow upbrain

Example

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"Fadil wanted to incinerate Layla's body."

Etymology

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

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