incinerate
/ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/US/ɪnˈsɪnɚeɪt/
incinerate verb: to destroy by burning.
Verb
incinerate (third-person singular simple present incinerates, present participle incinerating, simple past and past participle incinerated)
- To destroy by burning.
- 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
- 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
- To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).
Adjective
incinerate (not comparable)
- Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
- FIRE burneth wood, making it first luminous; then black and brittle; and lastly , broken and incinerate1627 (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...
incinerate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
incinerate in Tamil
- சாம்பலாக்கு, எரி
incinerate in Urdu
- راکھ بنانا
incinerate in Bengali
- ভস্মীভূত করা, পুড়িয়ে ছাই করা
incinerate in Malayalam
- burn, reduce to ashes, consume by fire
- ചുടുക, നീറ്റുക, ചാമ്പലാക്കുക, കത്തിക്കുക, കത്തിത്തീരുക, ദഹിച്ചു തീരുക
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- incinerate in Kannada
- ಬೂದಿಮಾಡು, ಭಸ್ಮಮಾಡು, ಸುಟ್ಟುಹಾಕು, ದಹಿಸಿಬಿಡು
- incinerate in Malay
- menunu
- incinerate in Vietnamese
- thiêu
Examples of incinerate in a sentence
- The laggard broilers are euthanized and incinerated.
- Erick ducked as a drakerider zoomed narrowly overhead, its firebreath incinerating the very air inches above him.
- Speaking of the garbage problem, why not incinerate some of our obuncous politicians?
Synonyms of incinerate
Antonyms
Forms of incinerate
| third-person singular present | incinerates |
|---|---|
| present participle | incinerating |
| past participle | incinerated |
| past | incinerated |
Origin of incinerate
From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).
Words formed from incinerate
Questions about incinerate
- What does incinerate mean?
- Incinerate means to destroy by burning.
- What is incinerate in Tamil?
- Incinerate in Tamil is சாம்பலாக்கு, எரி. See Incinerate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is incinerate?
- Incinerate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce incinerate?
- Incinerate is pronounced /ɪnˈsɪnəɹeɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of incinerate?
- The past tense of incinerate is incinerated.
Words near incinerate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: incinerate (page history and authors); incinerate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incinerate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Incinerate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incinerate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); incinerate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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