incinerate

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  1. transitive verb To cause to burn to ashes.
  2. intransitive verb To burn completely.

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Examples (38)

  • They don't trust their own work, you see, and now any of his cells that are harmed, separated from his body, or even too closely scanned will self-incinerate. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
  • My paper with the stuff I wanted to incinerate was packed with scribble. —  LaurieWrites
  • Do not puncture, incinerate, or store above 120 degrees Fahrenheit. —  Latest Articles
  • Perhaps that's the point: No one has anything to distract them from the minutiae of their love lives, which they proceed to incinerate through overanalysis. —  Variety.com
  • When they discovered that mass hunger and selective Israeli murder only strengthened the population's links to its democratically elected government and the resolve of the Hamas government to resist Israel, the Israeli regimes unleashed its entire arsenal of weapons, including its new 'American gifts' up-to-date 1000 pound 'bunker buster' bombs and high tech missiles to incinerate large numbers of human beings within their deadly radius and to obliterate Palestinian civilization. —  Palestine Chronicle - Headlines
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  1. Medieval Latin incinerāre, incinerāt- : Latin in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + Latin cinis, ciner-, ashes.

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  1. Formerly also encinerate; from Middle Latin incineratus, past participle of incinerare (later Italian incenerare = Spanish Portuguese Provencal incinerar = French incinérer), burn to ashes, from Latin in, in, to, + cinis (ciner-), ashes: see cinerary.
  2. from Middle Latin incineratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ɪnˈsɪnəreɪt/
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